Table 5.
Metagenomic compression benchmarkinga
| Compression method | Sargasso sea metagenome |
||
|---|---|---|---|
| Size (bytes) | Ratio | Time (ms) | |
| None | 962 651 334 | 1.000 | N/A |
| 2D | 419 368 931 | 2.295 | 145 115.0 |
| gzip | 261 995 558 | 3.674 | 315 564.6 |
| bzip2 | 238 973 241 | 4.028 | 301 924.0 |
| 2D + gzip | 220 487 270 | 4.366 | 153 175.8 |
aCompression data for 2D, gzip, bzip2, and 2D + gzip was obtained using the Sargasso Sea metagenome. File size, compression ratio and execution time are given for each algorithm. Execution time is the average result from five trials.