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Table 5 Comparisons of compression ratios and running times of RNACompress, Gencompress, winrar and gzip.

From: RNACompress: Grammar-based compression and informational complexity measurement of RNA secondary structure

Test data

RNACompress

Gencompress

Winrar

Gzip

 

RT(s)

CR (R1)

CR (R2)

RT (s)

CR (R1)

CR (R2)

RT(s)

CR (R1)

CR (R2)

RT(s)

CR (R1)

CR (R2)

rRNA.txt

0.16

5.234

1.133

0.55

8.103

1.753

0.13

10.689

2.312

0.11

10.294

2.227

tRNA.txt

0.08

5.215

1.100

1.12

4.581

0.964

0.11

4.054

0.853

0.06

4.355

0.917

miRNA.txt

0.24

5.248

1.126

316.23

9.171

1.969

0.32

7.847

1.684

0.27

6.176

1.326

evofold.txt

6.56

5.252

1.046

/

/

/

4.24

4.302

0.857

2.25

4.241

0.845

asRNA.txt

0.43

4.966

1.104

241.36

4.703

1.043

0.41

4.123

0.846

0.32

4.048

0.898

snoRNA.txt

0.52

5.073

1.089

71.29

4.778

1.025

0.67

4.324

0.928

0.61

4.113

0.883

151Rfam.txt

0.12

4.812

1.032

21.70

4.655

0.997

0.33

3.990

0.850

0.21

3.908

0.837

  1. Tests are performed on Windows and Linux platforms with 512 RAM and 2.0 MHz CPU. (RT: Running Time; CR: Compression Ratio; '/' means that for evofold.txt, Gencompress becomes inapplicable because of the large size of this file.)