Table 2 Performance examples of typical BLASTGrabber operations*

BLAST file

~90.000 queries (file size 640 MB )

Import (creation of *.bgr file)

~5 minutes

Resulting *.bgr file

~45.000 queries** (file size 140 MB).

Opening the *.bgr file

~30 seconds

Opening matrix viewer, 10 rows × 10 cols (100 cells)

~1 second

Opening matrix viewer, all queries × 10 cols (450.000 cells)

~2 seconds

Selecting a significant subset (e-value < e-5)

<1 second

Saving the selected significant subset

~10 seconds