BMC Bioinformatics

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FERN – a Java framework for stochastic simulation and evaluation of reaction networks

Florian Erhard, Caroline C Friedel* and Ralf Zimmer

Author Affiliations

LFE Bioinformatik, Institut für Informatik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Amalienstraße 17, 80333 München, Germany

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BMC Bioinformatics 2008, 9:356 doi:10.1186/1471-2105-9-356

Published: 29 August 2008

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Additional file 1:

FERN distribution, Version 1.3. This archive contains the FERN source code and binaries as well as documentation and example models in FernML and SBML.

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Additional file 2:

FERN user guide. The user guide provides instructions on installing and using FERN, as well as a description of the software architecture and a specification of FernML and supported features of SBML.

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Additional file 3:

Supplementary Figures. This file contains Supplementary Figures on FernML, the simulation cycle, the Cytoscape plugin and runtime comparisons between FERN and gillespie2.

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