Sunbeam: an extensible pipeline for analyzing metagenomic sequencing experiments

Microbiome

Table 2 Memory usage, speed, and nucleotides masked for each program

Tool	Microsatellite nucleotides masked (%)	Conserved coding sequence nucleotides masked (%)	Speed (kilobase/second)	Peak memory usage (megabytes)
Komplexity	54.6	0.68	10,100 ± 560	3.50 ± 0.06
RepeatMasker	57	0.75	0.64 ± 0.02	624 ± 3.0
BBMask	43	0.029	1690 ± 440	385 ± 52
DUST	44.9	0.74	795 ± 10	17.0 ± 0.18

Columns show the percentage of nucleotides (microsatellite or conserved coding sequence) from reads masked by each tool, as well as the normalized time taken and peak memory usage of each tool while processing the dataset (1.1 megabases). The top-performing tool in each category is shown in italics

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