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. 2021 Jan 19;6(1):e00943-20. doi: 10.1128/mSystems.00943-20

FIG 4.

FIG 4

Workflow and performance of the search engine kernel. (a) Offline sequence preprocessing parses the compositional features of the query microbiome from sequences. (b) Two-tier indexing search to find the best-matched samples from the database with the highest similarity to the query. (c) Comparison of the average running times between index searching and index-disabled exhaustive searching for each search type.