Table 2.
Performance comparison of miBLAST and indexed MegaBLAST
| Set | No. of results | Time (s) |
Faster |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MI | MB | MI | MB | Tied | ||
| Qsmall | <5000 | 170.20 | 23.21 | 0 | 89 | 0 |
| ≥ 5000 | 161.11 | 182.72 | 10 | 1 | 0 | |
| Qmedium | <5000 | 129.16 | 39.26 | 0 | 17 | 0 |
| ≥ 5000 | 15340.13 | 4237.12 | 6 | 75 | 2 | |
The time represents the sum of median results per query. In this table and in Table 3, the number of results refers to the number of alignments reported, not the number of database sequences with at least one reported alignment. The queries are grouped based on the number of results. The three rightmost columns count the number of queries for which either software package was faster or the running times were considered a tie. The two running times for a query were considered a tie, if the time difference is <0.1s.