Table 1.

Run time comparison using 56 inputs in the run time set

Run time	4 cores, 16 Gb			8 cores, 32 Gb			12 cores, 32 Gb
(seconds)	SKESA	SPAdes	MegaHit	SKESA	SPAdes	MegaHit	SKESA	SPAdes	MegaHit
<=300	6	1	6	16	2	24	32	3	37
301−400	3	0	2	16	1	12	11	3	11
401−500	5	2	8	7	3	7	2	1	5
501−600	6	1	10	6	1	8	3	3	0
601−700	10	1	6	0	3	2	3	3	0
> 700	26	51	24	11	46	3	5	43	3
Median	688	2303	616	359	1319	328	275	1086	240

Best of three wall-clock times is used for each input, method, and resource combination