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A computer-aided design (CAD) tool for synthetic biology
- Biological network design
- Simulation and other numerical analyses
- Modules and modular circuit design
- Synthetic biology (use of biological parts)
- Customizable hierarchy of biological parts
- Attributes (e.g. sequence) for characterizing parts
- Drawing program for designing part graphics
- Multi-threaded simulations (uses C for speed)
- Python scripting
- Antimony scripts
Functionality: - Deterministic and stochastic simulation
- Steady state analysis
- Automatic generation of:
- Complex reactions with intermediate steps
- Hill equations for different logical functions
- Linear programming (lpsolve):
- Integrated PySCeS:
- Sensitivity analysis
- Bifurcation analysis
- Structural analysis
- Integrated SciPy:
- Optimization
- Statistics
- Control systems
- FFT
- Visual model construction
- Script-based model construction
- Programming interface: Python
Extensibility:
- Highly flexible C++ plug-in framework
- C interface
- Python interface
Availability:
- Free
- Open source
- Windows, Mac, Linux
Status: - Beta, i.e. works but still fixing bugs
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