Table 3 Comparison of assemblers on run times and memory requirements
From: Clover: a clustering-oriented de novo assembler for Illumina sequences
Assembler | Staphylococcus aureus | Rhodobacter sphaeroides | Human Chromosome 14 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Time | Memory | Time | Memory | Time | Memory | |
Clover | 5.6Â min | 10.1Â GB | 13.9Â min | 11.0Â GB | 10.4Â h | 59.3Â GB |
ABySS | 5.1Â min | 0.5Â GB | 11.6Â min | 0.5Â GB | 6.7Â h | 3.3Â GB |
Bambus2 | 55.5Â min | 2.3Â GB | 3.7Â h | 12.3Â GB | 5.1 d | 190.3Â GB |
CABOG | NA* | NA* | 2.9Â h | 12.3Â GB | 22.9Â h | 190.4Â GB |
MSR-CA | 25.5Â min | 26.2Â GB | 41.3Â min | 28.3Â GB | 1.3 d | 34.6Â GB |
SGA | 35.5Â min | 1.1Â GB | 1.1Â h | 3.5Â GB | 18.8Â h | 35.0Â GB |
SOAPdenovo | 2.3Â min | 3.1Â GB | 1.8Â min | 5.0Â GB | 2.1Â h | 8.0Â GB |
SPAdes | 56.8Â min | 6.1Â GB | 29.5Â min | 4.5Â GB | 10.9Â h | 22.0Â GB |
Velvet | 5.4Â min | 0.4Â GB | 7.3Â min | 0.5Â GB | 11.7Â h | 72.3Â GB |