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Table 1 Sample-specific metagenomic databases and generic databases

From: Increasing the power of interpretation for soil metaproteomics data

Databases

Tools used/database origin

Computational timea (hours)

Size of the database (in residues)

Number of protein entries

MGH-6RF

MEGAHIT + six-frames translation

13

1,028,880,437

21,883,653

MGH-FGS

MEGAHIT + FragGeneScan

13

168,662,946

1,269,322

PLASS

PLASS

6

1,784,677,737

16,004,028

FGS

FragGeneScan

43b

2,939,955,188

72,130,656

sixgill

Sixgill

5.5

82,314,892

2,577,349

NCBI

Non-redundant NCBI

-

41,817,980,956

108,307,546

SGC

Soil gene catalog

-

21,962,323,955

159,657,012

  1. aComputer used: 10 CPU, 240 Gb RAM memory
  2. bSingle thread