A novel statistical method to estimate the effective SNP size in vertebrate genomes and categorized genomic regions

Table 2 Performance comparison with SNPNB

SNP data	Process^a	SNPNB [8]			SNPKS
		1 round	5 rounds	10 rounds
Human	Preprocessing data	2 h 50 m 25 s			2 h 24 m 49 s
	Estimation of N_e	24 h 56 m 1 s	82 h 48 m 1 s	147 h 39 m 40 s	5 h 7 m 35 s
	Total elapsed time	27 h 46 m 26 s	85 h 38 m 26 s	151 h 8 m 56 s	7 h 32 m 24 s
Mouse (Build 123)	Preprocessing data	0 h 2 m 51 s			0 h 2 m 52 s
	Estimation of N_e	7 h 27 m 55 s	37 h 53 m 53 s	75 h 18 m 28 s	2 h 4 m 50 s
	Total elapsed time	7 h 30 m 46 s	37 h 56 m 44 s	75 h 21 m 19 s	2 h 7 m 42 s

^aThe tests were performed in a Linux workstation (CPU 2 × 3.0 GHz, memory 4 GB).

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