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Table 1 Time required by each program to classify 10 million 150 bp reads into each taxonomic group (hours:minutes:seconds)

From: Expanding the taxonomic range in the fecal metagenome

Program

Bacteria

Viruses

Eukaryotes

Total

BURST

0:08:54

0:02:28

0:16:58

0:28:20

Kraken2

0:09:56

0:00:24

0:10:04

0:20:24

Centrifuge

0:02:01

0:02:45

0:14:43

0:19:29

Ublast

10:33:50

1:47:55

18:01:24

30:23:09

CCMetagen

0:04:47

0:00:28

0:50:29

0:55:44

MetaPhlAn2

0:05:12

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  1. 24 CPUs (Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6130 CPU @ 2.10 GHz)