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Table 1 Comparison of the time of execution for the paired end reads (SRR1027730) using TopHat and PVT pipeline in the host and remote machines respectively

From: PVT: An Efficient Computational Procedure to Speed up Next-generation Sequence Analysis

Steps

TopHat

PVT

 

Execution Time (mins)

Execution time (mins) in Host machine

Execution time (mins) in Remote machine

Time (mins) considered for PVT of paired end reads

Filter_reads

22

21

-

21

Transfer to remote

Not applicable

5

92*

Building Bowtie indices

6

6

Gene_align

83

42(L)

37(R)

Genome_align

94

39(L)

41(R)

Transfer from remote

Not applicable

3

Find_juncs

12

9

-

9

Transfer to remote

Not applicable

Negligible (~22 s)

5*

Junc_align

17

2(L)

2(R)

Span_reads

10

3(L)

3(R)

Transfer from remote

Not applicable

~24 s

Report

40

41(L + R)

-

41

Net execution time

284

168

  1. (L) and (R) denotes the execution time for left and right kept reads respectively.
  2. *Time calculated using equation (1).