-- RUNTIME COMPARISON -- Compute mum candidates of length >= 100. Result is identical for both programs. mummer3: mummer2: Ecoli K12/ Ecoli 0157: 14 sec/66 MB 17 sec/133 MB Ecoli 0157/ Ecoli K12: 14 sec/77 MB 17 sec/155 MB S cerevisae/ S pombe 42 sec/172 MB 50 sec/348 MB S pombe/ S cerevisae 41 sec/176 MB 52 sec/358 MB -- CORRECTNESS COMPARISON -- Consider the two files > N25 NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN and nn.query > n18 nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn ------------------ First example:--------------- mummer3 -l 5 Data/nn.query Data/nn.subject > N25 1 1 18 1 2 18 1 3 18 1 4 18 1 5 18 1 6 18 1 7 18 1 8 18 mummer2 -l 5 Data/nn.query Data/nn.subject > N25 1 1 18 I think the result of mummer3 is correct, since the string n18 occurs exactly once in n18. It occurs 8 times in N25. hence 8 MUM-candidates are reported. ---- second example ----- mummer3.x -l 5 Data/nn.subject Data/nn.query > n18 Bigmum.sh -l 5 Data/nn.subject Data/nn.query > n18 New string is suffix of reference string 8 1 18 Here n18 occurs several times in the N25, hence it is not a MUM-candidates and so nothing is to be reported. Thus the result of mummer3 is correct.