Research Article

Large Scale Explorative Oligonucleotide Probe Selection for Thousands of Genetic Groups on a Computing Grid: Application to Phylogenetic Probe Design Using a Curated Small Subunit Ribosomal RNA Gene Database

Table 2

A Comparison of our load balancing method with PhylArray [29] using 4 processors to select probes for 3 genus groups.

GroupCitrobacter Eubacterium Haemophilus
SoftwarePhylArrayPhylGrid 2.0PhylArrayPhylGrid 2.0PhylArrayPhylGrid 2.0

Mean degeneracy26,722.7526,722.7537,132.2537,132.2520,100.7520,100.75
Degeneracy job 113,06826,72341,43537,13328,60020,101
Degeneracy job 241,78226,72343,46637,13232,33520,101
Degeneracy job 316,38126,72310,27337,1324,31420,101
Degeneracy job 435,66026,72253,35537,13215,15420,100
Standard deviation14,142.8360.518,647.850.512,853.090.5