Research Article

Efficient Serial and Parallel Algorithms for Selection of Unique Oligos in EST Databases

Table 1

Results of serial algorithms.

Algorithm Dataset Time taken (secs) Non-unique oligos

Algorithm 2 28 6 4 1 (78 ESTs) 163 46,469
Algorithm 1 28 6 7 1 (78 ESTs) 131 46,469
Algorithm 3 27 6 9 1 (78 ESTs) 231 46,564
Algorithm 2 28 6 4 2 (2838 ESTs) 197, 500 1,611,241
Algorithm 1 28 6 7 2 (2838 ESTs) 117, 714 1,611,241
Algorithm 3 27 6 9 2 (2838 ESTs) 94, 317 1,614,235