mendes: 2010-02-25 08:10:00 +0000
The COPASI team, through Dr. Stefan Hoops, initiated a collaboration with the group of Dr. Yang Cao, from Virginia Tech’s Computer Science Department. The collaboration is focused on improving stochastic simulation methods.
The COPASI team, through Dr. Stefan Hoops, initiated a collaboration with the group of Dr. Yang Cao, from Virginia Tech’s Computer Science Department. The collaboration is focused on improving stochastic simulation methods. Cao’s team are leaders in algorithms for stochastic simulation, particularly those that take into account the stiffness of the dynamics. The collaboration is to include these algorithms in COPASI such that they benefit a large number of users. Currently the work is being carried out by Ao-ping Hou, an MSc student, and has already resulted in a new algorithm and speed improvements in the existing ones. At the moment Ao-ping is working on a implementation of a self adjusting Tau-Leap method, which will later be incorporated in COPASI.