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. 2024 Jan 8;9(2):e00950-23. doi: 10.1128/msystems.00950-23

TABLE 4.

Benchmarking results for the taxonomy assignment stepa

Data set Database Elapsed time Memory usage peak (GB) Memory usage mean (GB)
Gut Greengenes 0:00:17 7.09 3.11
RDP 0:00:46 18.21 6.97
GSR 0:01:08 18.55 5.11
ITGDB 0:01:28 33.62 11.74
Greengenes2 0:01:31 49.46 16.72
GTDB 0:01:44 37.47 13.46
SILVA 0:02:17 48.93 16.36
Vagina Greengenes 0:00:09 5.64 2.55
GSR 0:00:29 14.85 4.33
RDP 0:00:29 12.56 4.28
Greengenes2 0:00:53 42.86 9.2
ITGDB 0:01:00 26.59 6.83
GTDB 0:01:07 30.12 7.83
SILVA 0:01:30 37.86 9.28
a

Gut and vaginal datasets were taxonomically profiled using previously trained classifiers of each reference database. MetaSquare classifier was also tested but no results were obtained due to a lack of computational resources (>187 GB RAM).