Spartan: A Comprehensive Tool for Understanding Uncertainty in Simulations of Biological Systems

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Alden, Kieran ^a   Read, Mark ^b   Timmis, Jon ^b   Andrews, Paul S ^b   Veiga Fernandes, Henrique ^c   Coles, Mark ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA MOLECULAR   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

BIOLOGICAL INSIGHT; IN-SILICO; PARAMETER ANALYSIS; PARAMETRIZATIONS; POWER; REAL-WORLD SYSTEM; SIMULATION PARAMETERS; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; STOCHASTICITY; UNCERTAINTY;

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; LYMPHOID TISSUE; PARAMETRIC TEST; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SMALL INTESTINE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84874780992     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002916     Document Type: Article

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