Figure 1

Memory consumption of fastdist program. This figure shows fastdist computation on 10 gene families with family size ranging from 1,000 to 10,000. Here, Fastdist-without-Ambiguity refers to the results computed using binary format functionality (discussed in section 'Features of fastdist’), while Fastdist-with-Ambiguity refers to the fastdist computation using ambiguity information. The results in the figure suggest that the Fastdist-with-Ambiguity computation requires much more memory than Fastdist-without-Ambiguity as the gene family size increases.