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. 2014 May 1;30(9):1331-2.
doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btt772. Epub 2014 Jan 17.

Morpheus: a user-friendly modeling environment for multiscale and multicellular systems biology

Jörn Starruß  1 , Walter de Back, Lutz Brusch, Andreas Deutsch
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Morpheus: a user-friendly modeling environment for multiscale and multicellular systems biology

Jörn Starruß et al. Bioinformatics. .

Abstract

Morpheus is a modeling environment for the simulation and integration of cell-based models with ordinary differential equations and reaction-diffusion systems. It allows rapid development of multiscale models in biological terms and mathematical expressions rather than programming code. Its graphical user interface supports the entire workflow from model construction and simulation to visualization, archiving and batch processing.

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(A) Morpheus supports the simulation and integration of diverse modeling approaches including (1) cell-based, (2) multiscale and (3) image-based modeling, see case studies in main text. (B) The user interface provides workflow tools for (1) model editing, (2) visualization, (3) archiving, (4) data analysis and (5) batch processing
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