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. 2008 Jun 21;24(16):1757–1764. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btn322

Table 4.

Running time in seconds for baseline and indexed versions of MegaBLAST in the case of masked genomes and query masked (indicated by yes) or unmasked (indicated by no)

Human masked
Mouse masked
Set Baseline Indexed
Baseline Indexed
Yes Yes No Yes Yes No
Qlarge 1097.11 511.76 418.31 1702.35 736.74 613.17
447.42 108.32 127.60 447.50 98.71 114.07
Qmedium 266.43 90.80 95.36 437.45 146.63 140.94
176.21 23.97 28.64 162.15 22.82 25.63
Qsmall 104.79 27.24 26.44 148.98 64.93 67.76
76.83 5.27 5.33 70.10 5.32 5.11
Quser 144.06 46.12 NA 164.21 82.82 NA
93.49 8.27 NA 83.18 7.01 NA

For each query set the top row is the total search time, and the second row is the time taken for the seed search phase only. NA—not applicable.