Table 3:

ElasticBLAST searches of Candidatus Saccharibacteria bacterium contigs from the DXSX00000000.1 project against the refseq_protein database. Searches were performed at GCP with the e2-highmem-16 instance, selected by ElasticBLAST. The cost was estimated using the search time, the number of instances, and the hourly cost ($0.81432) of the instances (as of October 25, 2022). Costs for ElasticBLAST runs on preemptible instances were calculated at 20% of on-demand instance cost and are shown in the last two columns. The last row (“standalone”) shows data for a stand-alone BLAST+ run, performed on one on-demand instance.

Number of instances	Time (hours)	Cost ($)	Time (hours) preemptible	Cost ($) preemptible
1	8.07	6.57	7.83	1.28
2	4.08	6.44	4.13	1.30
4	2.37	6.87	2.22	1.28
8	1.63	8.55	1.5	1.59
1 (stand-alone)	6.62	5.39	NA	NA