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SBW - a modular framework for systems biology

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Frank T. Bergmann,

Herbert M. SauroAuthors Info & Claims

WSC '06: Proceedings of the 38th conference on Winter simulation

Pages 1637 - 1645

Published: 03 December 2006 Publication History

Abstract

A large number of software packages are available to assist researchers in systems biology. In this paper, we describe the current state of the Systems Biology Workbench (SBW), a modular framework that connects modeling and analysis applications, enabling them to reuse each other's capabilities. We describe how users and developers will perceive SBW and then focus on currently available SBW modules. The software, tutorial manual, and test models are freely available from the Computational and Systems Biology group at Keck Graduate Institute. Source code is available from SourceForge. The software is open source and licensed under BSD.

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WSC '06: Proceedings of the 38th conference on Winter simulation

December 2006

2429 pages

ISBN:1424405017

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L. Felipe Perrone
Bucknell University
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Barry G. Lawson
University of Richmond
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Colorado School of Mines
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Sensis Corporation
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David Nicol
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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Richard Fujimoto
College of Computing, Georgia Tech

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Ayadi Ade Beuvron FZanni-Merk CKrichen S(2017)CBNSimulatorProcedia Computer Science10.1016/j.procs.2017.08.157112:C(514-523)Online publication date: 1-Sep-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.procs.2017.08.157
Gostner RBaldacci BMorine MPriami C(2014)Graphical Modeling Tools for Systems BiologyACM Computing Surveys10.1145/263346147:2(1-21)Online publication date: 31-Jul-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2633461
Qi XCoskun SCakmak ACheng ECicek EDas MYang LJadeja RSyed SDash RLai NÖzsoyoǧlu GÖzsoyoǧlu Z(2012)PathCase-SBACM SIGBioinformatics Record10.1145/2384691.23846962:3(19-25)Online publication date: 1-Sep-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2384691.2384696

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