Supplementary Figure 2: Results from the evaluation, for all methods and across all evaluation criteria.

(a) We characterized the methods according to the wrapper type, their required priors, whether the inferred topology is constrained by the algorithm (fixed) or a parameter (param), and the types of inferable topologies. The methods are grouped vertically based on the most complex trajectory type they can infer. (b) The overall results of the evaluation on four criteria: benchmarking using a reference trajectory on real and synthetic data, scalability with increasing number of cells and features, stability across dataset subsamples, and quality of the implementation. (c) Accuracy of trajectory inference methods across metrics, dataset sources and dataset trajectory types. The performance of a method is generally more stable across dataset sources, but very variable depending on the metric and trajectory type. (d) Predicted execution times and memory usage for varying numbers of cells and features (# cells × # features). Predictions were made by training a regression model after running each method on bootstrapped datasets with varying numbers of cells and features. (e) Stability results by calculating the average pairwise similarity between models inferred across multiple runs of the same method. (f) Usability scores of the tool and corresponding manuscript, grouped per category.