Fig. 7
From: Comprehensive benchmarking and ensemble approaches for metagenomic classifiers
a Time and (b) maximum memory consumption running the tools on a subset of data using 16 threads (where the option was available, except for PhyloSift, which failed to run using more than one thread, and NBC, which was run through the online server using four threads). BLAST, NBC, and PhyloSift were too slow to completely classify the larger datasets, therefore subsamples were taken and time multiplied. c A decision tree summary of recommendations based on the results of this analysis