Condor-COPASI: High-throughput computing for biochemical networks

BMC Systems Biology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Kent, Edward ^a   Hoops, Stefan ^b   Mendes, Pedro ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b VIRGINIA BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational modelling; Distributed computing; High throughput computing; Simulation; Systems biology

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; METHODOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STATISTICS; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SOFTWARE; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84864151850     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17520509     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1752-0509-6-91     Document Type: Article

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