Table 1. Relative CPU times for each package to process the n = 4, 10% synthetic dataset in Fig. 5.

Package	CPU time
PoissonSeq	0.38
QLSpline	16.45
edgeR	0.28
Polyfit-edgeR	0.32
DESeq	1.00
Polyfit-DESeq	1.07
DESeq2	0.82