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Table 4 The runtime and memory usage of the assemblies on the human chromosome 14 genome.

From: TIGER: tiled iterative genome assembler

Evaluations

Wall-clock Time (Hr.)

Peak memory usage (GB)

Thread # in total

K-mer size #

Tile #

Velvet 61k

0.95

8.26

1

1

1

Tiger-Velvet-R 1i

1.49

0.16

1

8

150

Tiger-Velvet-I 1i

1.96

0.29

1

3

150

SOAPdenovo 55k

0.43

8.31

1

1

1

Tiger-Soap-R 1i

1.35

1.8

1

8

150

Tiger-Soap-I 1i

1.67

1.9

1

3

150

  1. All evaluations are done using 1 thread. "#k" stands for the applied k-mer size. "#i" stands for the iteration number. Note: The runtime and memory usage for Tiger is on the read assembly (Step 5) only.
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BMC Bioinformatics

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