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. 2021 Apr 22;16(4):e0249410. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0249410

Fig 4. Performance comparison between NCBI BLAST and iBLAST for case study I.

Fig 4

(A) Performance comparison between regular blastn and incremental blastn at 3 periods when nt database is growing over time, using 100 nucleotide queries. For 40.8% and 34.0% increase in the database size, iBLAST performs 2.93 and 3.03 times faster respectively. (B) Performance comparison between regular blastp and incremental blastp at 3 periods when nr database is growing over time, using 100 protein queries. For 34.1% and 26.3% increase in the database size, iBLAST performs 4.33 and 4.98 times faster respectively.