Table 2 Cost, run-time, and number of virtual CPUs for the ElasticBLAST searches used for taxonomic identification
From: ElasticBLAST: accelerating sequence search via cloud computing
Search set | MegaBLAST time | MegaBLAST cost | MegaBLAST vCPUs | BLASTN time | BLASTN cost | BLASTN vCPUs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
eudicotyledons | 18Â min | $20.64 | 1600 | 3Â h 29Â min | $1,849 | 12,288 |
non-eudicotyledons | 1Â h 19Â min | $617.2 | 7248 | 15Â h 45Â min | $33,012 | 32,000 |