The FALCON pipeline crashed during the analytical process

The FALCON pipeline offers many useful plots for the visualisation of results. Nevertheless, it uses a lot of graphical memory to display all plots on the screen at once. As a result, Matlab might crash if the machine does not have a dedicated powerful graphical processing unit (GPU).

To bypass this problem, we designed FALCON to either close all current figures to free graphical memory before displaying a new one, or, to skip the plotting process entirely. In both cases, the results from the optimisation and the previous analysis which have already been done are still saved in the “estim.Results” variable. Therefore, the users can still continue running the analysis pipeline from the previous point when Matlab crashes, and supply the “estim” variable to the function “FalconPlots” in order to plot the results from the completed analyses.