Random versus Deterministic Descent in RNA Energy Landscape Analysis

Table 5

Increasing energy offset: number of observed local minima and run-time (minutes) for increasing energy offset for gene OXT. Note: randomly sampled from the full partial landscape.

		Gradient time	Random time	First time	Gradient lm()	Random lm()	First lm()
14.0		14.80	10.65	11.60	45,656	46,005	48,138
16.0		15.47	10.98	11.48	65,923	70,003	74,939
18.0		15.83	11.61	14.55	87,307	96,911	106,807
20.0		17.27	11.47	14.85	108,334	124,566	141,783
22.0		19.08	11.82	11.78	125,422	150,296	176,904
24.0		21.61	12.17	12.80	138,447	173,275	210,951
26.0		22.28	12.48	12.20	147,261	191,784	241,460