Table 4.

Performance comparison on simulated datasets between drFAST-DP, drFAST-CT and Bowtie where error threshold is set to three mismatches

Dataset	Mapper	Time (min)	Map locations	Reads mapped (%)
Set 1	drFAST-DP	88	364 601 231	100
	drFAST-CT	75	363 472 241	100
	Bowtie v = 3	60	56 407 732	99.4
	Bowtie n = 3	101	252 735 117	99.4
Set 2	drFAST-DP	42	118 053 818	100
	drFAST-CT	45	113 349 741	100
	Bowtie v = 3	45	23 365 015	99.4
	Bowtie n = 3	50	111 931 387	99.4
Set 3	drFAST-DP	47	215 274 860	100
	drFAST-CT	50	215 261 940	100
	Bowtie v = 3	48	28 321 746	99.4
	Bowtie n = 3	75	137 015 425	99.4

Values in bold show alignments with 100% sensitivity, higher value implies more sensitivity in the reported alignment.