A comparison between the trade-offs for analyzing the Jacobian around a particular steady state versus carrying out dynamic simulations.

The approach presented here for analysis of the Jacobian in order to characterize network dynamics allows generalized, comprehensive elucidation of dynamics around a particular steady state directly and in a scaleable manner. In contrast, although the approach using dynamic simulations is not restricted to a particular steady state, it is resource intensive and for larger networks it is infeasible to characterize all of the different possible initial conditions, due to combinatorial growth of the possible combinations.