Tutorial 8: Modeling, Simulating, and Analyzing Biochemical Systems with COPASI
Presentation
Schedule:
October 8th, 2006 morning session
Instructors:
Ursula Kummer, Ralph Gauges and Jürgen Pahle (EML Research gGmbH)
Course topics:
COPASI (Complex Pathway Simulator) is a software application for simulation and analysis of biochemical networks. It is developed jointly by the groups of Pedro Mendes (Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, USA) and Ursula Kummer (EML Research, Germany), and is freely available for academic use.
COPASI's current features include stochastic and deterministic time course simulation, steady-state analysis (including stability), metabolic control analysis, elementary mode analysis, mass conservation analysis, import and export of SBML level 2, optimization, parameter scanning and parameter fitting. It runs on MS Windows, Linux, OS X, and Solaris SPARC. So, it is one of the few computational tools in systems biology that are OS X compatible.
We will use COPASI to explain how the modelling, simulation and computational analysis of biochemical systems works. We will also critically evaluate the limitations of different simulation methods.
Target Audience:
This tutorial is primarily aimed at experimentalists who are newcomers to the computational side of systems biology.
Course Size:
~30 Participants
Course length:
3 hours
Participants are encouraged to bring their own computers.
