Table 2.

Computing requirements for the analysis of a sediment and a water column EMO BON sample as well as a Tara Oceans water sample, using metaGOflow in a “fat” node of the Zorba HPC

	Computational time (hours)			Memory (max RAM in Gb)
Workflow step(s)	EB sediment	EB water	TO water	EB sediment	EB water	TO water
Preprocessing and taxonomy inventory (steps 1 and 2)	14.5	12.6	26.4	4.55	4.65	4.15
Assembly (step 3)	1.6	1.22	0.4	8.8	4.38	2.7
Gene calling and functional annotation (steps 4 and 5)	98.7	92.4	84.2	205.1	188.6	155.4

EB: EMO BON; TO: Tara Oceans.