Table 8.

UST-FM Data Structure Size, Shown in the Average Number of Bits per Distinct k-Mer in the Dataset

Dataset	BOSS	Unitigs-FM	UST-FM
Zebrafish RNA-seq	7.5	7.9	5.5
Human RNA-seq	9.0	9.2	6.3
Human chromosome 14	8.7	6.9	4.8
Whole human genome	7.7	6.8	5.7
Human gut metagenome	8.8	5.4	4.9
Human RNA-seq (k = 61)	13.4	13.6	10.0

This was measured by taking the peak memory usage during membership queries.