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. 2000 Apr;10(4):502–510. doi: 10.1101/gr.10.4.502

Table 1.

Automated Data Collection Run Times for Each Tool and Total

Tool Sec/tool Responses Total sec




GENSCAN 1800 65 117000
BLASTX nr 8880 65 577200
BLASTN nt 960 65 62400
BLASTN EST 360 65 23400
FASTA dmEST 120 65 7800
FASTA dmcDNA 8 65 520
REPORTS 120 65 7800
 Subtotal 455 822120
BLASTX nr 400 841 336400
 Subtotal 4205 336400
BLASTNAdh 8 551 4408
TBLASTN cDNA 4 551 2204
BLASTP CDS 1 551 551
FASTAX nr 480 551 264480
REPORTS 60 551 33060
 Subtotal 2755 304703
TBLASTNAdh 2 184 368
BLASTP CDS 1 184 184
FASTAP CDS 1 184 184
REPORTS 60 184 11040
 Subtotal 736 11776
TBLASTN cDNA 4 53 106
TBLASTX cDNA 12 53 636
BLASTN cDNA 4 53 106
BLASTNAdh 8 53 212
BLASTP CDS 1 53 53
FASTAP nr 480 53 25440
FASTA 26 genomes 8 1378 11024
REPORTS 60 53 3180
 Subtotal 1537 40757
 Total 5483 1515756

Run times and totals were determined using Ultrasparc 336-mHz CPUs writing to disk via an UltraSCSI fast-and-wide connection.