. 2014 Apr 16;31(7):1929–1936. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msu136

Table 1.

Times Required to Read Large Data Sets.

Data Set	Individuals	SNPs	Format	Time for Reading^a
Arabidopsis (Chr 1)	80	1,200,000	SNP (1001 Genomes)	<1 min^b
Arabidopsis (Chr 1)	80	1,200,000	SNP (1001 Genomes)	∼3 min
Human (Chr2: 100–150 Mb)	1,094	660,000	VCF (1000 Genomes)	∼5 min
3450 individual alignments	25	200,000	FASTA	∼15 s

^aIntel® Core™ i3-2130 CPU @ 3.40 GHz × 4, 8 GB RAM, with data stored in temporary files.

^bWithout temporary files, if sufficient RAM is available.