Published In

Frontiers in Robotics and AI

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

4-4-2016

Subjects

Open source software, Computational grids (Computer systems), Chemical reactions -- Data processing, Chemical reactions -- Simulation methods, Electronic data processing -- Distributed processing

Abstract

Chemical Reaction Networks (CRNs) are a formalism to describe the macroscopic behavior of chemical systems. We introduce COEL, a web- and cloud-based CRN simulation framework, which does not require a local installation, runs simulations on a large computational grid, provides reliable database storage, and offers a visually pleasing and intuitive user interface. We present an overview of the underlying software, the technologies, and the main architectural approaches employed. Some of COEL’s key features include ODE-based simulations of CRNs and multicompartment reaction networks with rich interaction options, a built-in plotting engine, automatic DNA-strand displacement transformation and visualization, SBML/Octave/Matlab export, and a built-in genetic-algorithm- based optimization toolbox for rate constants. COEL is an open-source project hosted on GitHub (doi:10.5281/zenodo.46544), which allows interested research groups to deploy it on their own sever. Regular users can simply use the web instance at no cost at coel-sim.org. The framework is ideally suited for a collaborative use in both research and education.

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Copyright © 2016 Banda and Teuscher. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

Code available at: 10.5281/zenodo.46544

DOI

10.3389/frobt.2016.00013

Persistent Identifier

http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/17016

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