Table 2 Time taken, memory consumption, and CPU usage of the NetRank R package functions used on the development set of the breast cancer samples
From: Netrank: network-based approach for biomarker discovery
Function name | Description | Time (min) | Memory (GB) | CPU usage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Fetch StringDB | Fetch data from STRINGdb | 1.41 | 0.75 | 100% (1 core) |
RunNetRank (StringDB) | Apply NetRank algorithm | 19.02 | 0.53 | 1500% (15 cores) |
Preprocessing | Preprocess expression data | 29.9 | 0.53 | 100% (1 core) |
BuildNetwork | Create the co-expression network | 126 | 0.53 | 100% (1 core) |
Postprocessing | Prepare the network for NetRank | 6.3 | 0.05 | 100% (1 core) |
RunNetRank (Co-expression) | Apply NetRank algorithm | 8.7 | 0.08 | 1500% (15 cores) |