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Table 3 Time usage of database searching (minutes)

From: Accelerating the scoring module of mass spectrometry-based peptide identification using GPUs

Search engines

Time distribution

Exp. 1

Exp. 2

Exp. 3

X!Tandem

Total time

45

1011

253

 

Scoring time

24

566

138

 

Scoring time percentage

54%

56%

55%

pFind

Total time

22

601

132

 

Scoring time

18

530

107

 

Scoring time percentage

82%

89%

81%

  1. Note: pFind and X!Tandem both use a one-step mode.