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Table 3 Results of the empirical evaluation of RDFSCape performance

From: RDFScape: Semantic Web meets Systems Biology

Task

Time (sec)

Loading and parsing (38M, 260k statements)

10-20 (a)

OWL reasoning through Pellet, custom inference rules through Jena / query: retrieve all interactions (~19k results)

60/12 (b)

OWL (partial) reasoning through Jena, custom inference rules through Jena / query: retrieve all interactions (~19k results)

5/5 (b)

Plotting results into Cytoscape (~19k relations)

30

Graph rendering in Cytoscape

7

  1. (a) minimum and maximum time measured (variability reflects the usage of different disk subsystems).
  2. (b) reasoning time and query time are reported separately.
  3. All times reported are the approximate average of two measurements.