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Table 3 Barcode sequence space(s) defined by program parameters.

From: BARCRAWL and BARTAB: software tools for the design and implementation of barcoded primers for highly multiplexed DNA sequencing

 

Parameters

Results

Run

Len

-1

Min. Dist.

-m

GC Low

-c

GC High

-g

Homo-polymer

-p

Hair-pin

-a

Hetero-duplex

-b

Dels.

-d

Initial Barcode Pool

Final Barcode Pool

Exec. Time (sec.) 1

           

System A 2

System B 3

1

4

3

0.3

0.7

3

5

5

1

256

7

0.0 (0.0)

0.0 (0.0)

2

5

3

0.3

0.7

3

5

5

1

1024

26

0.0 (0.0)

0.0 (0.0)

3

6

3

0.3

0.7

3

5

5

1

4096

82

0.4 (0.5)

0.2 (0.4)

4

7

3

0.3

0.7

3

5

5

1

16384

218

3.0 (0.0)

1.2 (0.4)

5

8

3

0.3

0.7

3

5

5

1

65536

760

54 (0.0)

24 (0.4)

6 4

9

3

0.3

0.7

3

5

5

1

262144

2774

978 (0.4)

419 (5.4)

7

9

3

0.3

0.7

3

5

5

0

262144

3113

12 (0.0)

6.0 (0.0)

8

9

4

0.3

0.7

3

5

5

1

262144

593

159 (0.4)

68 (0.8)

9

9

3

0.3

0.7

4

5

5

1

262144

3294

1536 (0.8)

655 (5.8)

10

9

3

0.3

0.7

3

4

4

1

262144

2774

979 (0.7)

416 (1.2)

11

9

3

0.3

0.7

3

6

6

1

262144

2774

977 (1.1)

419 (9.3)

12

9

3

0.4

0.6

3

5

5

1

262144

2155

493 (0.5)

211 (0.8)

13

9

3

0.3

0.7

2

5

5

1

262144

779

42 (0.4)

18 (0.4)

14

9

3

0.2

0.8

3

5

5

1

262144

2914

1153 (0.8)

491 (4.9)

15

9

3

0.1

0.9

3

5

5

1

262144

2910

1177 (0.0)

505 (5.5)

16

10

3

0.3

0.7

3

5

5

1

1.10E+06

9375

16507 (1857)

6650 (23)

  1. 1 Elapsed time of execution: Mean (St. Dev) seconds.
  2. 2 Executed on a 2 GHz Intel Core Duo MacBook Pro. 1 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM. Mac OSX version 10.5.4.
  3. 3 Executed on a workstation with 2 × 3 GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon 5160 processors. 12 GB 800 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM. Fedora Core 5 operating system.
  4. 4 Default parameters