GenomeTester4: a toolkit for performing basic set operations - union, intersection and complement on k-mer lists

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Table 3 GListCompare running times for the generation of different bacterial datasets

List	List size	Number of unique k-mers	Generation time
32-mer lists of all bacteria			2 h 8 m
Union list of all bacteria	64 GiB	5,676,675,273	2 h 30 m
Streptococcus genus specific	1.4 KiB	115	75.2 s
S. pneumoniae species specific	4 MiB	348,970	79.2 s
S. pneumoniae strain G54 specific	922 KiB	78,667	77.3 s

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