How much computer memory required to analysis with silva.nr_v123.align

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Hi, How much computer memory is required to analysis 21 sample around 2GB data with silva.nr_v123.align reference database?

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Dunno. Sorry. Let us know what you find.

Pat

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Sorry, my mistake about data size…i have 4GB memory in my system. While running my samples (total 2GB) with silva.nr_v123.align database my computer goes out of memory.

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4GB isn’t much. You probably would need to use 1 processor for the alignment step.

Pat