Table 1. Benchmarking values (time and CPU usage) for a SARS-CoV-2 dataset analyzed using VGEA.

VGEA rule name	Time (h:m:s)	Maximum RAM used (MB)
human_reference_index	1:01:53	4688.56
fastp	0:00:14	581.91
bwa_human	0:08:52	5960.95
samtools_extract	0:02:40	16.21
bamtofastq	0:01:39	6.61
aiva	8:19:11	238.57
shiver_init	0:00:53	64.97
shiver_align_contigs	0:04:37	2509.64
shiver_map_reads	0:31:51	567.27
shiver_tidy	0:00:00	1.06
quast	0:00:33	72.51

Notes.

^aIVA was run using one CPU core and two threads so if allowed more computational resources, the assembly time will be even shorter.