Tellurium: An Extensible Python-based Modeling Environment for Systems and Synthetic Biology

Overview

Journal Biosystems

Specialty Biology

Date 2018 Jul 28

PMID 30053414

Citations 64

Authors

Kiri Choi

J Kyle Medley

Matthias Konig

Kaylene Stocking

Lucian Smith

Stanley Gu

Herbert M Sauro

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Abstract

Availability: tellurium.analogmachine.org.

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