From: Tentacle: distributed quantification of genes in metagenomes
Use case | 1 | 2 | 3 |
---|---|---|---|
Reads mapped to their contigs | Reads mapped to large DB | Reads mapped to peptide DB | |
Mapper | pBLAT | GEM | USEARCH |
Type of reference | Per sample contigs (nucleotide) [6] | BGI Refseq geneset (nucleotide) [6] | Resqu; antibiotic resistance gene |
database (peptide) [53] | |||
Reference size (bytes) | approx. 160 MiB per sample | 3.0 GiB | 1 MiB |
Reference size (sequences) | 6,589,348 | 3,305,138 | 3,019 |
Runtime (core hours) | 720 | 3,072 | 296 |
Runtime (wall-clock) | 1h 30m | 6h 24m | 0h 37m |