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Table 1 Run time (mm:ss) of the Perl and C++ programs compared to MoSDi (exact and approximated using compound Poisson) for calculating the occurrence distribution for s motif query sequences of length m (13–31) over a reference genome of 5 million bases

From: Fast and exact quantification of motif occurrences in biological sequences

No. of motifs s

Motif length m

C++

Perl

MoSDi exact

(10/500)

MoSDi approx

(10/500)

10

13

00:00

00:00

00:47/17:50

00:00/00:00

20,000

13

00:01

00:07

xx:xx/xx:xx

01:16/02:24

50,000

13

00:03

00:18

xx:xx/xx:xx

03:14/06:24

200,000

13

00:15

01:12

xx:xx/xx:xx

13:34/27:40

400,000

13

00:35

02:20

xx:xx/xx:xx

28:05/xx:xx

1,000,000

13

00:85

05:45

xx:xx/xx:xx

xx:xx/xx:xx

10

31

00:00

00:00

01:47/xx:xx

00:00/00:01

20,000

31

00:02

00:07

xx:xx/xx:xx

15:34/16:41

50,000

31

00:04

00:17

xx:xx/xx:xx

xx:xx/xx:xx

200,000

31

00:16

01:09

xx:xx/xx:xx

xx:xx/xx:xx

400,000

31

00:29

02:26

xx:xx/xx:xx

xx:xx/xx:xx

1,000,000

31

00:32

05:18

xx:xx/xx:xx

xx:xx/xx:xx

  1. Runs lasting over 30:00 were stopped