Table 5.

Run time (d:hr:min) and number of iterates required for analyses of protein yield.

	Country addition step			Rank reduction step			Total time
	Countries	Iterates	Time	Rank	Iterates	Time
Bottom-up PC	7	5	0:00:46	7	4	0:00:26	0:01:12
	8	9	0:01:48	8	4	0:00:41	0:02:29
	9	8	0:02:21	9	5	0:01:12	0:03:33
	10	8	0:03:24	10	6	0:02:02	0:05:26
	11	11	0:06:05	11	5	0:02:25	0:08:30
	12	14	0:10:24	11	6	0:03:49	0:14:13
	13	13	0:10:53	12	6	0:03:50	0:14:43
	14	13	0:14:09	13	6	0:05:00	0:19:09
	15	12	0:16:34	14	5	0:05:28	0:22:02
	16	77	6:03:56	15	8	0:11:04	6:15:00
	17	12	1:06:04	16	6	0:10:40	1:16:44
	18	17	2:10:31	16	13	1:03:47	3:14:18
	19	12	1:13:49	17	6	0:13:00	2:02:49
	20	21	3:14:19	17	12	1:07:15	4:21:34
	21	14	1:22:37	18	5	0:13:08	2:11:45
	22	28	5:11:05	19	7	0:22:04	6:09:09
	23	15	3:14:23	19	11	1:15:25	5:04:48
	24	15	3:17:11	20	6	1:24:00	4:17:35
	25	14	4:05:09	20	12	2:04:03	6:09:12
							46:23:11
Direct PC	25			20	24	5:13:27