Cluster stats

Used Version 1.27.0

with stool.final.phylip.dist which is ~80M. 4800 sequences

cluster

mothur > cluster(phylip=stool.final.phylip.dist)

Used 360M and took 309 seconds.

mothur > cluster(phylip=stool.final.phylip.dist, cutoff=0.20)

Used 89M and took 31 secs.

cluster.classic

mothur > cluster.classic(phylip=stool.final.phylip.dist) 

Used 45M and 110 seconds.

Used Version 1.22.0

with stool.final.phylip.dist which is ~80M.

cluster

mothur > cluster(phylip=stool.final.phylip.dist)

Used 774M to cluster and took 690 seconds.

mothur > cluster(phylip=stool.final.phylip.dist, cutoff=0.20)

Used 162M to cluster and took 74 seconds.

cluster.classic

mothur > cluster.classic(phylip=stool.final.phylip.dist) 

Used 90M to cluster and took 147 seconds.

cluster.split

mothur > cluster.split(phylip=stool.final.phylip.dist, cutoff=0.20)

Used 166M to cluster. It took 73 seconds to convert the distance file. It took 29 seconds to split the distance file. It took 61 seconds to cluster. Cluster.split can use multiple processors to save time, but this uses more memory. Cluster.split can also split by taxonomy.