Mean computation time, in hours, of various methods for the mouse dataset.

Values in parentheses are standard deviations. Means and standard deviations are calculated based on 2.1 million MCMC iterations in 120 replicates: 20 intra-family and 20 inter-family splits for three phenotypes. Computations were performed on a single core of an Intel Xeon L5420 2.50 GHz CPU. Since computing times for many methods will vary with number of iterations used, and we did not undertake a comprehensive evaluation of how many iterations suffice for each algorithm, these results provide only a very rough guide to the relative computational burden of different methods.