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Table 1 Multicore with 2 threads and E-value equal to 10-3

From: PLAST: parallel local alignment search tool for database comparison

 

protein vs protein

protein vs DNA

DNA vs protein

query bank

BLASTP

PLASTP

speedup

TBLASTN

TPLASTN

speedup

BLASTX

PLASTX

speedup

1K

4380

1446

3.02

805

319

2.52

2261

554

4.08

3K

10860

2602

4.17

2344

556

4.21

6989

1591

4.39

10K

52131

12415

4.19

7971

1416

5.26

21667

4981

4.34

  1. Comparison of performance of BLAST and PLAST families running with 2 threads. The E-value cutoff is set to 10-3 and option "-m8" of BLAST is enabled. BLAST is run in multithread mode (-a 2). Execution times are given in seconds.