Table 1.

Benchmark of standard analysis tasks using various analysis software packages

	MDAnalysis	VMD	CHARMM	Gromacs
Distances (3x)	1.04 s	4.81 s	2.22 s	14.71 s
Dihedrals (2x)	0.80 s	2.40 s	2.15 s	11.92 s
RMSD	29.10 s	4.29 s	5.09 s	32.18 s
Radius of Gyration	10.16 s	12.58 s	12.10 s	16.87 s
Radial Distribution	21 m 24 s	10 m 38 s	7 m 1 s	6 m 6 s
3-dimensional Density	1 m 32.31 s	5 m 52.37 s	– *	16.93 s

^*Currently not implemented within CHARMM as a stand-alone calculation.