Table 1. Performance comparison of STARS with respect to ClustalW and UCLUST on sets of different sizes of COXI sequences.

Number of sequences	STARS K = 6 (s)	STARS K = 17 (s)	STARS K = 35 (s)	ClustalW (s)	UCLUST (s) / No. of resulting clusters
8	0.034	–	–	2.8	1 / 8
17	0.038	0.071	–	9.85	1 / 17
35	0.071	0.098	0.167	32.68	1 / 35
70	0.160	0.188	0.279	130.91	1 / 70
141	0.383	0.655	0.770	485.02	1 / 138