Method | Runtime slope (mpmf) | Resource slope (cpmf) |
|---|
eXpress-D
| 0.05 | 0.12 |
eXpress
| 1.8 | 0 |
Cufflinks
| 6 | 0 |
RSEM
| 27 | 0 |
- We computed the mean slope between the runtime samples from Figure 3 from of this manuscript and Figure 2(b) of [10] to compare the scaling of the four methods in units of minutes per million fragments (mpmf). While eXpress, Cufflinks, and RSEM were all run on the same machine fixed at 8 cores and 24 GB RAM, the resources of eXpress-D were increased at a rate of 0.12 cores per million fragments (cpmf), allowing it scale in approximately constant time.
