Time and memory resources used by SCNIC
SCNIC’s module generation step can be run locally on a laptop computer. For both the Great Lakes and GT datasets, which had 764 and 1,301 features respectively, SCNIC’s module generation step ran in less than 2 minutes when using the SMD method and less than 30 seconds when using the Louvain method. The Great Lakes dataset used less than 200 mebibytes (MiB) memory, and the GT dataset required a maximum of 300 MiB memory. Supplemental table 1 shows time and memory usage during SCNIC.