Figure 7

Time-analysis of SMAL MNA creation. The y-axis shows time to create a MNA in minutes. The four graphs represent values for different algorithms. (Top) compares native MNA creation to SMAL. (Bottom) graphs represent algorithms that do not possess native MNA versions. The small (purple brick) bars represent the most expensive pairwise alignment and show a lower bound for SMAL when pairwise alignments are parallelized. As the number of networks increases, the low complexity of SMAL emphasizes the time savings compared to native MNA algorithms. Note the differences in scale on the four graphs where total times range from less than ten minutes to several days.