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= ScrumPy Documentation = ## page was renamed from Software/ScrumPy/Doc
= ScrumPy - Metabolic Modelling in Python =
<<TableOfContents>>
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=== Metabolic Modelling ===
=== Design Philosophy ===
Scrumpy is unusual, but not unique, in that the primary user interface is a language (it is an oversimplification to refer to it as a command line interface) rather than a more conventional GUI. The underlying reason for this choice is a simple one: A GUI restricts the user to only those actions which the programmer mpredicted the user might wish to perform. In some contexts this is not a problem, simple text editing and web-browsing being examples.
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=== Why Python ? === However, in metabolic modelling (and scietific/research contexts in general) it is much harder for the programmer to predict what a user may wish to do. MORE HERE -
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'cause it's great. Furthermore, in the twenty or so years in which I have been involved in the field, I have lost count of the number of presentations I've listened to for software (not only modelling or scientific) making the claim that the software is intuitive and user friendly, to the extent that this has become a mantra to be uttered at the begining of every presentation. Most of it has been unconvincing at best.

=== Python ===
[[ScrumPy/Doc/PyNotes|Python notes]]

== ScrumPy Model Description Language ==
[[SpyMDL#Overview|Overview]]

[[SpyMDL#Identifiers|Identifiers]]

[[SpyMDL#Reactions|Reactions]]

[[SpyMDL#Directives|Directives]]

== Analysis of Models With ScrumPy ==
=== The ScrumPy Modelling Environment ===

[[ScrumPy/Doc/ModEnv#RunSpy | Running ScrumPy]]
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=== What ScrumPy Is ===

=== What ScrumPy Isn't ===

=== Quick examples ===
[[ScrumPy/Doc/ModEnv#LoadSpy | Loading Models]]
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== ScrumPy model format ==
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== Structural Analysis of Models == === The Matrix Class ===
Fully described in utility section - enough here to understand SMs, datasets and monitors.
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== Kinetic Analysis of Models ==
=== Anatomy of a ScrumPy Model ===
=== Kinetic Modelling ===
=== Structural Modelling ===
=== Linear Programming ===
== Secondary Analysis of Model Results ==
=== Data sets ===
=== Fitting and Optimisation ===
== Automatic Model Building ==
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== The Utility Package ==
=== Dynamic Matrices ===

ScrumPy - Metabolic Modelling in Python

Introduction

Metabolic Modelling

Design Philosophy

Scrumpy is unusual, but not unique, in that the primary user interface is a language (it is an oversimplification to refer to it as a command line interface) rather than a more conventional GUI. The underlying reason for this choice is a simple one: A GUI restricts the user to only those actions which the programmer mpredicted the user might wish to perform. In some contexts this is not a problem, simple text editing and web-browsing being examples.

However, in metabolic modelling (and scietific/research contexts in general) it is much harder for the programmer to predict what a user may wish to do. MORE HERE -

Furthermore, in the twenty or so years in which I have been involved in the field, I have lost count of the number of presentations I've listened to for software (not only modelling or scientific) making the claim that the software is intuitive and user friendly, to the extent that this has become a mantra to be uttered at the begining of every presentation. Most of it has been unconvincing at best.

Python

Python notes

ScrumPy Model Description Language

Overview

Identifiers

Reactions

Directives

Analysis of Models With ScrumPy

The ScrumPy Modelling Environment

Running ScrumPy

Loading Models

The Matrix Class

Fully described in utility section - enough here to understand SMs, datasets and monitors.

Anatomy of a ScrumPy Model

Kinetic Modelling

Structural Modelling

Linear Programming

Secondary Analysis of Model Results

Data sets

Fitting and Optimisation

Automatic Model Building

Bioinformatics Functions

The Utility Package

Dynamic Matrices

None: ScrumPy/Doc (last edited 2013-11-06 14:23:12 by david)