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Table 5 Peak memory usage for compression and decompression

From: Disk compression of k-mer sets

Dataset

Compression (GB)

Decompression (MB)

BOSS

UST-Compress

ESS-Tip-Compress

ESS-Compress

UST-Compress

ESS-Tip-Compress

ESS-Compress

MFC-D

MFC-D

Core

MFC-D

Core

R. sphaeroides

2

3

3

3

509

513

3

513

4

Human RNA-seq

4

3

3

6

515

515

3

515

38

Gingiva metagenome

4

2

2

5

515

515

3

515

4

Soybean

4

2

2

3

515

515

3

515

12

Tongue metagenome

4

2

2

9

515

515

3

515

6

Whole human

5

12

11

42

515

515

3

515

735

  1. Decompression takes far less memory than compression, so compression memory is shown in GB and decompression memory in MB. Decompression memory is split in the same manner as the running time in Table 4