Table 2

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



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

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).

Zamboni et al. BMC Bioinformatics 2008 9:199   doi:10.1186/1471-2105-9-199