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Table 1 Maximum data capacities of the BLAST interpreter programs*

From: BLASTGrabber: a bioinformatic tool for visualization, analysis and sequence selection of massive BLAST data

Program

Maximal capacity

Input file

BlastViewer

~1.200.000 sequences

XML file (BLAST XML format, size ~2.1 GB )

JAMBLAST

~1.000.000 sequences

bls file (NOBLAST csv format, size ~290 MB)

BLASTGrabber

~2.200.000 sequences

bgr file (custom text format, size ~ 280 MB)

  1. *as tested on a laptop computer; 1.4 GHz Core i5 2537 M processor, 4 GB of memory, SSD hard drive. Java heap space was set to 4 GB. On average, BLAST data consisted of 100 sequences pr. query.
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BMC Bioinformatics

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