Table 1 Comparison of key features between Meta-Storm and Visibiome
From: Visibiome: an efficient microbiome search engine based on a scalable, distributed architecture
Criterion | Meta-Storms | Visibiome |
|---|---|---|
Scalable architecture | No | Yes |
Job-queuing/Scheduling | No | Yes |
GPU support | Yes (Parallel-Meta) | No |
Web interface | No | Yes |
Database implementation | Indexed Flat files | MySQL and NumPy matrix |
Database size | 1,318 samples | 24,615 |
Number of studies | 18 | 2767 |
Input | Custom Preprocessing | FASTA or BIOM |
Max. samples per submission | 1 | 10 (GNAT)/100 (AESA) |
Copy number correction | No | Yes |
Adaptive Rarefaction | No | Yes |
Interactive bar diagrams | No | Yes |
PCoA | Yes (Parallel-Meta req.) | Yes |
Hierarchical Clustering | Yes (Parallel-Meta req.) | Yes |
Distance Measure | Unifrac-Like Score | EMD-UniFrac |