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. 2014 Jul 28;15(1):631. doi: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-631

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Alignment yield and mapping speed. Mapping yield a) and mapping speed b) for the aligners Tophat and Star, performed both on raw data and quality data. The mapping efficiancy and mapping speed improves using the quality data for both aligners. Star outperforms Tophat both in alignment yield and in mapping speed. Note that the alignment speed is plotted on a log scale.