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Table 6 Approximate computation times.

From: A comprehensive analysis of 40 blind protein structure predictions

Task

~ Time per CPU

~ Time for cluster

Comparison of two protein sequences

< 1 sec

-

Clustering of sequence families for 3000 proteins

3 days

1 day

Initial model building by minimum perturbation

< 1 sec

-

Graph-theory search with 30,000 nodes

24 hours

-

Re nement of single model using ENCAD for 200 steps

< 1 sec

-

Evaluation by all-atom function for one conformation

< 1 sec

-

Generating a three-dimensional conformation

< 1 sec

-

Trajectory of 10,000 steps to generate one decoy

1 minute

-

Generating 10,000 decoys

10000 minutes

3 hours

  1. Times are shown for a single 1000 MHz processor, and for a cluster of 64 such processors if the algorithms used can run in parallel. * indicates times can vary based on the quality of the results desired.