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. 2011 Jun 2;27(15):2031–2037. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btr319

Table 6.

Comparison of runtime and RAM in the computational demand test

Bench.Seq (length: bp) E.coli (4.6M) C.ele (20.9M) H.sap-2 (50.3M) H.sap-3 (100.5M)
Runtime (s)
SE SSAKE 2776
VCAKE 1672 16 742
Euler-sr 1689 11 961 29 622
Edena 895 8450 17 043
Velvet 205 1003 2786 6098
ABySS 265 1300 3307 6608
SOAPdenovo 62 253 560 1029
PE SSAKE 9163
Euler-sr 1455 15 068
Velvet 229 1351 55 581
ABySS 458 3081 9199 21 683
SOAPdenovo 78 374 889 2257
RAM (MB)
SE SSAKE 9933
VCAKE 4099 17 408
Euler-sr 1536 7065 13 312
Edena 1741 7557 30 720
Velvet 1229 4045 9830 22 528
ABySS 1126 3993 8909 18 432
SOAPdenovo 935 2867 8089 18 227
PE SSAKE 16 384
Euler-sr 1638 7578
Velvet 1331 5324 30 720
ABySS 950 4505 9830 18 432
SOAPdenovo 1638 5939 10 342 19 456

Bench.Seq, benchmark sequence; SE, single-end reads assembly; PE, paired-end reads assembly. ‘–’ denotes the RAM of computer is not enough or runtime is too long (>10 days) to get assembly results.