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Table 2 Comparison of performance of fmincon and LINDO solver for estimation of feasible ranges.

From: anNET: a tool for network-embedded thermodynamic analysis of quantitative metabolome data

  

Solver

Computation time for

Ranges to estimate

fmincon

LINDO

- parsing

 

20 ± 1 s

20 ± 1 s

- feasibility check

1

25 ± 3 s

0.2 ± 0.1 s

- ranges of concentrations

166

51 min

23 s

- ranges of ΔrG

147

145 ± 20 min

30 s

- non-linear constraints

7

n.d.a

1 s

  1. The time is given for at least duplicate analyses of the Schaub data set on a Pentium IV 3 GHz processor. Note: a, no runtime is provided because no robust optimization was possible (see text).
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