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ArticleSIAM journal on scientific computing : a publication of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics2016

MOLNs: A CLOUD PLATFORM FOR INTERACTIVE, REPRODUCIBLE, AND SCALABLE SPATIAL STOCHASTIC COMPUTATIONAL EXPERIMENTS IN SYSTEMS BIOLOGY USING PyURDME.

Brian Drawert, Michael Trogdon, Salman Toor, Linda Petzold, Andreas Hellander

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Article in SIAM journal on scientific computing : a publication of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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  1. Programmatic modeling for biological systems.Current opinion in systems biology · 2021
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5 authors.

Brian DrawertDepartment of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106.
Michael TrogdonDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106.
Salman ToorDepartment of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki FI-00014, Finland, and Department of Information Technology, Division of Scientific Computing, Uppsala University, Uppsala, 75105 Sweden.
Linda PetzoldDepartments of Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106.
Andreas HellanderDepartment of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106.

Funding

StochSS: A Next-Generation Toolkit for Simulation-Driven Biological DiscoveryR01EB014877 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA · PI PETZOLD, LINDA R. · 2012 to 2022
$3.9M
Bridging the Gap Between Molecular and Mechanical Control of Cell MorphogenesisR01GM113241 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA · PI CAMPAS, OTGER · 2014 to 2018
$1.7M
NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB014877NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM113241
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Computational experiments using spatial stochastic simulations have led to important new biological insights, but they require specialized tools and a complex software stack, as well as large and scalable compute and data analysis resources due to the large computational cost associated with Monte Carlo computational workflows. The complexity of setting up and managing a large-scale distributed computation environment to support productive and reproducible modeling can be prohibitive for practitioners in systems biology. This results in a barrier to the adoption of spatial stochastic simulation tools, effectively limiting the type of biological questions addressed by quantitative modeling. In this paper, we present PyURDME, a new, user-friendly spatial modeling and simulation package, and MOLNs, a cloud computing appliance for distributed simulation of stochastic reaction-diffusion models. MOLNs is based on IPython and provides an interactive programming platform for development of sharable and reproducible distributed parallel computational experiments.

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cloud computingcomputational experimentssimulation softwarespatial stochastic simulationsystems biology

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PMID28190948
PMCPMC5302863

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