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Table 1 Software included in performance testing

From: Parasail: SIMD C library for global, semi-global, and local pairwise sequence alignments

Software

Version

Command Line

BLAST

2.2.26

blastall -p blastp -F F -C 0 -b 0 -v 10 -a $T -M $M -G $O -E $E -i $Q -d $D

BLAST+

2.2.31+

blastp -seg no -comp_based_stats F -num_alignments 0 -num_descriptions 10 -num_threads $T -matrix $M -gapopen $O -gapextend $E -query $Q -db $D

SWIPE

2.0.11

swipe -v 10 -a $T -M $M -G $O -E $E -i $Q -d $D

libssa

29 October 2015

libssa_example -c 10 -N $T -M $M -O $O -E $E -t SW -b 16 -s AVX2 -i $Q -d $D

opal

16 November 2015

opal_aligner -x 1 -a SW -o $O -e $E -m $M -s $Q $D

SSW

30 July 2015

test_ssw -x -t $T -o $O -e $E -m $M -f $D -q $Q

Parasail

12 August 2015

parasail_aligner -x -a $A -t $T -o $O -e $E -m $M -f $D -q $Q

  1. Command line variables: threads ($T), score matrix file name ($M), gap open ($O) and extension ($E) penalties (positive values), query file name ($Q), database file basename ($D), Parasail alignment function name ($A)