From owner-metabolic-reg@net.bio.net Mon Nov 01 23:12:00 1999 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: "Herbert M Sauro" Newsgroups: bionet.metabolic-reg,bionet.software Subject: ANNOUNCE: New Experimental Metabolic Systems Lanaguage Date: 1 Nov 1999 17:12:07 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 40 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <941284658.6133.0.nnrp-02.c2de3927@news.demon.co.uk> References: <7veg4g$dnk$1@nclient13-gui.server.virgin.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Xref: biosci bionet.metabolic-reg:2761 bionet.software:24543 I have uploaded a new and experimental metabolic systems language at http://members.tripod.co.uk/sauro/biotech.htm under the Jarnac menu. The software runs under Windows 95/98/NT4 and is currently supplied with only limited documentation but numerous sample scripts. Because Jarnac is very new, still undergoing changes and not fully tested, it is being released into the public domain free of charge, however the author still retains full copyright and exclusive commerical rights. Some features Jarnac can be used as a general purpose language for performing arithmetic operations, including matrix and vector arithmetic, numerical differentiation and integration and from within the Jarnac Windows front-end a function or data grapher. Jarnac is an easy to learn control language, similar to the Basic language and supports many of the constructs one would expect, for loops, conditionals, while/do and repeat/until. It supports at least 7 different data types, including integers, floats, booleans, strings, vectors, matrices and lists. Jarnac also supports user defined functions and external modules. There is built-in computational support for: Describing and manipulating metabolic and cellular systems. Dynamic Simulation (using LSODA integrator) Steady State Analysis (using a modified Newton solver) Simple Stability Analysis (eigenvalues) Matrix Arithmetic (All the main operators including things like transpose, det etc) Metabolic Control Analysis (All steady state control coefficients and elasticities) Metabolic Structural Analysis. Herbert Sauro .