AnyExpress: Integrated toolkit for analysis of cross-platform gene expression data using a fast interval matching algorithm

Table 2 Stress testing with Affymetrix .cel files

Allocated Memory (GB)	Number of Affymetrix *.cel* files	Execution Time (seconds)
		Bind	Normalize	Combine
4	100	245	253	78
	200	1057	885	252
5	100	230	257	68
	200	668	582	165
	300	1355	1084	296
6	100	222	249	68
	200	660	578	167
	300	1312	1053	289
	400	2207	1515	456
7	100	212	255	71
	200	633	595	166
	300	1249	1027	298
	400	2076	1626	466
8	100	200	251	74
	200	599	598	167
	300	1226	1060	292
	400	2021	1581	463
	500	3057	2279	665

Tested on a 64-bit Linux server with 2.13 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU, 2 GB cache, and 16 GB memory.

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