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Table 3 Time needed to load the compressed dataset

From: Handling the data management needs of high-throughput sequencing data: SpeedGene, a compression algorithm for the efficient storage of genetic data

Number of SNPs

Loading time (SpeedGene)

Loading time (PLINK)

1 million

26 sec

56 sec

30 million

11 min

29 min

  1. The CPU time needed for loading the two compressed files using SpeedGene and PLINK on a 2.35 GHz AMD Opteron CPU with 128 GB of RAM.
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BMC Bioinformatics

ISSN: 1471-2105

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