Skip to main content

Table 2 Multicore with 8 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

1530

506

3.02

384

117

3.28

651

174

3.74

3K

4206

898

4.46

1068

186

5.74

1999

451

4.43

10K

21450

3807

5.60

3659

428

8.54

6237

1418

4.39

  1. Comparison of performance of BLAST and PLAST families running with 8 threads. The E-value cutoff is set to 10-3 and option "-m8" of BLAST is enabled. BLAST is run in multithread mode (-a 8). Execution times are given in seconds.