SYCAMORE is a system that provides you with a faciliated access to a
number of tools and methods in order
to build models of biochemical systems, view, analyse and refine them,
as well as perform quick simulations.
SYCAMORE is not intended to substitute for expert simulation and
modeling software packages, but might
interact with those. It is rather intended to support and guide system
biologists when doing computational
research.
One important function of SYCAMORE is to allow you to build a draft
model of your system of interest in such
a way that kinetic expressions and parameters are as close to reality as
possible. We want to
emphasize that the resulting model still has a draft character and
should not be taken as "the final model".
However, setting up your model in such a way that parameters etc. are as
close to reality as possible
on the basis of literature data and computational parameter estimation
methods should faciliate
any parameter fitting methods that you want to employ later on.
SYCAMORE is a joint project of the Molecular and Cellular Modeling
Group (MCM) and Scientific Databases and Visualization Group (SDBV) at
EML Research,
as well as the department for
Modeling of Biological Processes at the University of Heidelberg.
It is supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research within
the HepatoSys initiative.
Please be aware that this is a prototype release. We are constantly
improving the system and would appreciate your comments w.r.t. bugs and improvements
of user-friendliness!
(Last updated January 2008)
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