Table 9.
Memory requirements (in megabytes of main memory) 5 different structure prediction methods on 5S RNAs and tRNAs alignments from [38] and [39]
| tRNA | 5S RNA | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Min | Max | Avg | Min | Max | Avg | |
| Dynalign new constraint | 9.360 | 13.592 | 10.988 | 10.176 | 17.436 | 12.277 |
| Dynalign M constraint | 10.528 | 12.040 | 10.960 | 12.664 | 14.840 | 14.306 |
| StemLoc | 41.440 | 750.660 | 252.246 | 94.300 | 2788.296 | 415.973 |
| Consan | 34.272 | 358.704 | 131.595 | 98.976 | 1676.492 | 317.303 |
| FOLDALIGN | 93.276 | 230.032 | 134.438 | 585.900 | 820.204 | 730.214 |
A dual-core AMD Opteron®-270 2.0 GHz system with 4 GBytes of main memory running Linux Fedora Core 4 was utilized for the timing experiments.