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Table 1 Comparison between SAMMate and SAMtools

From: SAMMate: a GUI tool for processing short read alignments in SAM/BAM format

Running Time Comparison of SAMMate and SAMtool (SAM File: 6 *106

records, 1.03GB)

Software

Hardware Platform

SAM File Parsing Time

Sorting Time

Total Time

SAMMate

Intel core Duo CPU 2.26 GHz RAM 2GB

60s

43s

132s

SAMtools

Intel core Duo CPU 2.26 GHz RAM 2GB

93s

210s

310s

SAMMate

Intel core Duo CPU 9300 2.50GHz RAM 4GB

36s

25s

72s

SAMtools

Intel core Duo CPU 9300 2.50GHz RAM 4GB

57s

122s

183.8s

  1. SAMMate and SAMtools were compared for the amount of system time needed to generate one human signal map file using a SAM file. Two typical laptops were used for this comparison.