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Table 2 Summary of timing, memory, and numbers of predicted hits for Coronaviridae and HIV1 signatures

From: Simulate_PCR for amplicon prediction and annotation from multiplex, degenerate primers and probes

Target set

No. of target seqs.

No. of primers

No. of probes

Time against input fasta database* (h:mm:ss or m:ss)

Time against nt

RAM used (MB) against input fasta

RAM used (GB) against nt

Number of targets amplified

Number of targets with probe on amplicon

Number of sequences amplified from nt

Number of sequences amplified from nt outside the target group

Coronaviridae

547

64

45

1:29

3:36:39

340

10.9

547

541

1091

2 vectors

1 Glaucous-winged gull+

HIV1

1809

14

96

4:25

4:10:44

881

14.5

1809

1809

12371

8 synthetic contructs

10 vectors

3 SIV

  1. *Timings using 12 CPU on Intel Xeon 5660 processor. Timings were with options –genes 0 -extract_amp 0.
  2. +Hit to Glaucous-winged gull had 1 mismatch in forward primer and no matching probes.