Using Growing Self-Organising Maps to Improve the Binning Process in Environmental Whole-Genome Shotgun Sequencing

Table 6

Speed comparisons for the first two training phases of SOM and GSOM, in which the improvement columns represent the percentage of speed improvement for GSOM comparing to SOM.

	Species Set 1			Species Set 2			simMC_Phrap
	SOM (sec)	GSOM (sec)	Improvement	SOM (sec)	GSOM (sec)	Improvement	SOM (sec)	GSOM (sec)	Improvement
Di	54	34	37%	24	15	38%	2	1	50%
Tri	188	115	39%	74	45	39%	7	4	43%
Tetra	779	475	39%	236	147	38%	31	18	42%
Penta	3031	1847	39%	878	518	41%	144	80	44%