Research Article

Two Efficient Techniques to Find Approximate Overlaps between Sequences

Table 2

Time consumptions for prefix tree (PT), pigeonhole (PH), and FM solutions to find approximate overlaps using different values for allowed mismatches (). Time is shown in seconds.

Data set
PT PT PT PH PH PH FM FM FM

1 MB 1.8 10.6 45 0.5 0.5 1.2 3 17 120
5 MB 15 126.3 672 2.4 3.3 14 17 127 960
2.5 MB 4 27 109 1.34 2 3 4 13 82