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

<p>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.