SeqPurge: highly-sensitive adapter trimming for paired-end NGS data

BMC Bioinformatics

Table 4 Resources benchmark results on real data

	Trimming time	Mapping time	Variant calling time	Memory usage
no trimming	n/a	303	69	n/a
SeqPurge 0.1-270	38	182	65	28.8
AdapterRemoval 1.5.4	403	198	66	12.2
Flexbar 2.5	165	204	65	13.3
PEAT 1.2.2	43	241	73	672.7
SeqPrep 1.2	304	180	65	6.2
Skewer 0.1.123	24	200	66	5.7
Trimmomatic 0.32	58	177	66	220.9

Benchmark results of single-thread processing times (in seconds) and peak memory usage (in MB). The most notable entries are highlighted (bold)

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