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. 2012 Oct 25;29(1):15–21. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bts635

Table 1.

Mapping speed and RAM benchmarks on the experimental RNA-seq dataset

Aligner Mapping speed: million read pairs/hour
Peak physical RAM, GB
6 threads 12 threads 6 threads 12 threads
STAR 309.2 549.9 27.0 28.4
STAR sparse 227.6 423.1 15.6 16.0
TopHat2 8.0 10.1 4.1 11.3
RUM 5.1 7.6 26.9 53.8
MapSplice 3.0 3.1 3.3 3.3
GSNAP 1.8 2.8 25.9 27.0