HAMSTER: visualizing microarray experiments as a set of minimum spanning trees

Table 2 Additional software and libraries used by HAMSTER.

Software	Minimum Version	Purpose	System	Required?
Boost library [32]	1.39.0	Used extensively	Both	Yes
Graphviz (neato) [25]	2.20.2	MST layout and generation	layout-mst	No
Open MPI [26]	1.2.7	Parallel processing of MST layout	layout-mst	No

The software and libraries that are used by HAMSTER, as well as their version and purpose. Only the first is required to compile the software; the others are optional. Graphviz is required to generate images while Open MPI improves the execution time of layout-mst by distributing work across processors.

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