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. 2022 Nov 11;23:748. doi: 10.1186/s12864-022-08985-9

Table 2.

Processing times of the four metagenomic classifiers. The tools were run on a SLURM cluster with 16 CPUs per job and 200 GB requested memory size per node

Metagenome classifier Processing time Average memory usage
Centrifuge 20 min 139.5 GB
KrakenUniq 30 min 276.5 GB
MetaPhlAn 6 min 2.9 GB
Wochenende (core) + reporting 15 min + 4 min 23.4 GB