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. 2008 Feb 26;36(7):2406–2417. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkn043

Table 1.

Memory requirements (in megabytes of main memory) of five methods over 100 random tRNA pairs and 100 random 5S rRNA pairs

tRNA 5S rRNA RNase P



Min Max Avg Min Max Avg Min Max Avg
PARTS 16.1 193.5 58.1 26.9 111.4 50.4 212.8 7807.7 2042.2
Dynalign 15.9 22.0 17.7 17.3 21.1 18.6 38.3 548.6 141.3
FOLDALIGN 8.6 19.5 13.8 13.3 30.0 19.0 58.4 182.8 104.9
Consan 43.4 447.5 145.8 106.0 863.6 172.7 N/A N/A N/A
StemLoc 52.2 625.7 190.7 24.0 327.5 168.7 N/A N/A N/A
LocARNA 7.5 7.6 7.6 7.6 7.9 7.7 8.9 10.4 9.5

‘Min’ corresponds to minimum memory usage, ‘Max’ corresponds to maximum memory usage, and ‘Avg’ corresponds to average memory usage.