Research Article

A Hadoop-Based Method to Predict Potential Effective Drug Combination

Table 4

Comparison of the average efficiency between the scalable and sequential version.

Mining stepsScalable versionSequential version

Microarray processing2 h 3 min6 h 18 m
Feature construction8 min 34 s18 min 3 s
Naive Bayesian15 s3 s
SVM grid search27 min 6 s1 h 11 min