Conversational SAAM--an interactive program for kinetic analysis of biological systems

Abstract

CONSAM is a conventional version of the kinetic modelling program SAAM. Adjoined to the model processing capability of SAAM, CONSAM additionally affords the user creation, inspection, and alteration capabilities in model manipulation, assessment, and development. To achieve this flexibility CONSAM incorporates a text editor, a solution-saving facility, a model image-saving facility and a graphics package. Command syntax and command logic checking together with command argument defaulting help make CONSAM easy to use. The use of CONSAM in modelling a non-linear drug response to a moderately complicated dosing strategy is presented.