Table 5 Runtimes (in seconds) and corresponding speedups of SeQual-Stream over SeQual for different single- and paired-end datasets using the TRIMRIGHTP trimmer and DNATORNA formatter (“Downloaded” scenario, testbed 1)

1

1682

1062

1.58

2

934

872

1.07

4

765

680

1.13

8

583

523

1.11

16

521

523

1.00

1

5850

2259

2.59

2

3400

1906

1.78

4

2280

1463

1.56

8

1354

961

1.41

16

1051

961

1.09

1

2855

1723

1.66

2

1381

1281

1.08

4

1050

909

1.16

8

849

723

1.17

16

729

688

1.06

1

5960

4119

1.45

2

5514

2391

2.31

4

3329

1969

1.69

8

1859

1390

1.34

16

1420

1325

1.07

1

1840

1588

1.16

2

1194

1121

1.06

4

918

673

1.36

8

650

521

1.25

16

543

509

1.07

1

5072

3535

1.43

2

4069

1942

2.09

4

2556

1541

1.66

8

1449

1062

1.36

16

1057

950

1.11

1

3149

1999

1.57

2

2012

1116

1.80

4

1146

1013

1.13

8

859

683

1.26

16

722

671

1.08

1

6322

4923

1.28

2

5547

2760

2.01

4

3650

1954

1.87

8

2288

1333

1.72

16

1456

1286

1.13