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Table 1 Comparison of VISA and VISMapper using four datasets generated with the IS generator program from the the VISMapper website (https://visa.pharmacy.wsu.edu/bioinformatics/random_site_generator.html)

From: VISMapper: ultra-fast exhaustive cartography of viral insertion sites for gene therapy

Dataset

Input size (reads)

Insertion sites

Performance

VISA

VISMapper

Input 1

  

Runtime

~72 h

~60 s

100,000

100,000

IS detected

99,694

99.793

  

Total sequences mapped

99,694

99,881

Input 2

  

Runtime

~72 h

~60 s

50,000

50,000

IS detected

49,854

49,897

  

Total sequences mapped

49,855

49,936

Input 3

  

Runtime

~72 h

~30 s

10,000

10,000

IS detected

9992

9969

  

Total sequences mapped

9995

9981

Input 4

  

Runtime

~5 h

~30 s

1000

1000

IS detected

906

929

  

Total sequences mapped

906

930

  1. Runtimes of both programs are shown for the four datasets, along with the number of sequences correctly mapped, that correspond to the IS detected, and the total number of sequences mapped, which in both cases is slightly superior, demonstrating a low rate of false positives in both cases