Table 1.

Performance of Blender. The performance of the different Blender functionalities was evaluated on an iMac with a 3.06 GHz Intel Core i3 processor and 8 Gb memory

Activity	Time (ms)
Gene expression atlas model
Import gene surface representation	150-600
Find gene colocalization for a pair of genes	200-9000
Query metadata	1-2
Neuronal network model
Import a neuron	150-350
Import muscles (verts:346710 faces:681556)	17600
Import glia (verts:140041 faces:341738)	9200
Metadata query neuronal circuitry	10-30
Find up-/downstream neurons	20-60
Calculate centrality	250-500