XPPAUT is a program to to solve differential equations. It is freely available for Windows, MacOS X, Linux/Unix and probably others. Its input format is very similar to the one from Madonna and COPASI starting from Version 4.1 Build21 can export models as a set of differential equations for use in XPPAUT.
In order to export the set of differential equations to an XPPAUT file, you select the Export ODEs menu entry from COPASI's File menu. In the save dialog that shows up, you select
XPPAUT (*.ode) from the File type drop down and specify the name of the file you want to write the ODEs to. After clicking on the Save the ODEs will be saved to the specified file.
Warning: Just as in Berkeley Madonna, XPPAUT does not support all functions supported by COPASI. Functions that are not supported are exported as @. Among the unsupported functions are sec, csc, cot, sech, csch, coth, arcsec, arccsc, arccot, arcsech, arccsch, arccoth, factorial, modulus and logical xor.
The values of TRUE and FALSE are converted to 1 and 0 respectively upon export. INFINITY and NAN are exported as INF and NAN . Since both INF and NAN are not supported keywords in XPPAUT, those files have to be modified before they can be used in XPPAUT.
We also note that also ceil was mentioned in the XPPAUT documentation, files containing this function could not be loaded in XPPAUT.
