From: Ultrafast and memory-efficient alignment of short DNA sequences to the human genome
 | Platform | CPU time | Wall clock time | Reads mapped per hour (millions) | Peak virtual memory footprint (megabytes) | Bowtie speed-up | Reads aligned (%) |
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Bowtie -v 2 | Server | 15 m 7 s | 15 m 41 s | 33.8 | 1,149 | - | 67.4 |
SOAP |  | 91 h 57 m 35 s | 91 h 47 m 46 s | 0.10 | 13,619 | 351× | 67.3 |
Bowtie | PC | 16 m 41 s | 17 m 57 s | 29.5 | 1,353 | - | 71.9 |
Maq |  | 17 h 46 m 35 s | 17 h 53 m 7 s | 0.49 | 804 | 59.8× | 74.7 |
Bowtie | Server | 17 m 58 s | 18 m 26 s | 28.8 | 1,353 | - | 71.9 |
Maq |  | 32 h 56 m 53 s | 32 h 58 m 39 s | 0.27 | 804 | 107× | 74.7 |