Seamless, rapid, and accurate analyses of outbreak genomic data using split k-mer analysis

Table 1.

Runtimes obtained on one CPU and maximum memory consumption in the analyses of simulated outbreaks

S. pneumoniae (n = 12) M. tuberculosis (n = 30)
Runtime (min) Memory (MB) Runtime (min) Memory (MB)
BactSNP 59.6 1955 330.1 2059
Snippy 20.1 338 90.9 1434
BWA + BCFtools 19.8 323 77.4 656
SKA1 align 2.3 424 20.1 865
SKA2 align 1.0 443 5.5 893
  • Values represent averages over 20 replicates. (n) Number of samples per outbreak. The lowest values are highlighted in bold.

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  1. Genome Res. 34: 1661-1673

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