Table 3.

Performance comparison

	Benchmark data		Human genome
Program	Time	# mapped	Time	# mapped
GNUMap	47.9 s	71 262	985 m 14 s	7 739 321
Bowtie	7.0 s	62 298	14 m 43 s	6 699 526
SOAP	11.7 s	62 208	32 m 20 s	6 764 050
MAQ	46.5 s	62 208	*3488 m 28 s	6 764 054
Slider	16 m 31 s*	58 551	Crashed	Crashed
SeqMap	81.2 s	56 326	1703 m 04 s	5 455 538
Novocraft	24.4 s	56 238	*920 m 25 s	5 306 782
RMAP	9.2 s	1202	*295 m 54 s	3 447 086

Bold values show that GNUMAP achieves the best performance.