Table 2 Processing times of the four metagenomic classifiers. The tools were run on a SLURM cluster with 16 CPUs per job and 200 GB requested memory size per node
From: Wochenende — modular and flexible alignment-based shotgun metagenome analysis
Metagenome classifier | Processing time | Average memory usage |
|---|---|---|
Centrifuge | 20 min | 139.5 GB |
KrakenUniq | 30 min | 276.5 GB |
MetaPhlAn | 6 min | 2.9 GB |
Wochenende (core) + reporting | 15 min + 4 min | 23.4 GB |