Figure 2
From: Accessing the SEED Genome Databases via Web Services API: Tools for Programmers
Timing the SEED Web services. Time taken to retrieve each complete genome is proportional to the length of the sequence and is limited by network transfer via Web services. The time taken to retrieve each complete genome's sequence either directly from a local SEED installation or via Web services was compared to the length of the DNA sequence. The Web services incurs an approximately ten-fold delay. Linear regression demonstrates that approximately 1,000,000 bp per second are retrieved using the Web services interface.