Table 1

Time and space requirements of MUMmer 2.1 and 3.0 when computing all exact matches of length 20 or longer for different pairs of sequences

Reference genome
Query genome
MUMmer 2.1
MUMmer 3.0

Species
Size (Mbp)
Species
Size (Mbp)
Time (sec)
Space (MB)
Time (sec)
Space (MB)

E. coli K12
4.6
E. coli O157:H7
5.5
18
102
17
77
A. fumigatus
28.0
A. nidulans
30.1
128
578
120
459
Saccharomyces cerevisiae
13.0
Schizosaccharomyces pombe
13.8
51
261
47
204
D. melanogaster (chromosome 2L)
22.2
D. pseudoobscura (all chromosomes)
150.0
546
684
520
485
Homo sapiens (chromosome 21)
44.7
Mus musculus (chromosome 16)
99.2
-
-
430
759

Timings were done on a Linux-based computer with a 2.4 GHz Pentium processor. The human-mouse comparison was run only with MUMmer 3.0. Mbp, millions of base pairs; MB, megabytes. A suffix tree is constructed only for the reference genome.

Kurtz et al. Genome Biology 2004 5:R12   doi:10.1186/gb-2004-5-2-r12