Title
SBSI: an extensible distributed software infrastructure for parameter estimation in systems biology.
Abstract
Complex computational experiments in Systems Biology, such as fitting model parameters to experimental data, can be challenging to perform. Not only do they frequently require a high level of computational power, but the software needed to run the experiment needs to be usable by scientists with varying levels of computational expertise, and modellers need to be able to obtain up-to-date experimental data resources easily. We have developed a software suite, the Systems Biology Software Infrastructure (SBSI), to facilitate the parameter-fitting process. SBSI is a modular software suite composed of three major components: SBSINumerics, a high-performance library containing parallelized algorithms for performing parameter fitting; SBSIDispatcher, a middleware application to track experiments and submit jobs to back-end servers; and SBSIVisual, an extensible client application used to configure optimization experiments and view results. Furthermore, we have created a plugin infrastructure to enable project-specific modules to be easily installed. Plugin developers can take advantage of the existing user-interface and application framework to customize SBSI for their own uses, facilitated by SBSI's use of standard data formats.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1093/bioinformatics/btt023
BIOINFORMATICS
Keywords
Field
DocType
statistics and probability,algorithms,computational mathematics,biochemistry,systems biology,molecular biology
Middleware,Computer science,Server,Software suite,Unix,Software,Plug-in,Bioinformatics,Mac OS,Java,Operating system
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
29
5
1367-4803
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.69
6
Authors
14
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Richard Adams130.69
Allan Clark225913.74
Azusa Yamaguchi3153.17
Neil Hanlon430.69
Nikos Tsorman530.69
Shakir Ali6293.35
Galina Lebedeva741.03
Alexey Goltsov830.69
Anatoly Sorokin9367.08
Ozgur E. Akman10548.69
Carl Troein11839.84
Andrew J Millar12786.97
Igor Goryanin13963188.17
Stephen Gilmore14785.91