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Walter Roberson does it again by winning the coveted MOST ACCEPTED answers badge for all his contributions in MATLAB Answers this past year. Walter has won this badge every year since 2015. It was way back in 2014 when Image Analyst out paced Walter and was awarded the badge.

There are 10 community members who have achieved the Top Downloads badge for their popular File Exchange submissions in 2019. Do you recognize any of these names? There's a good chance you've used one or more of their toolboxes or scripts in your work if you're a frequent visitor to File Exchange, if you're not you might want to check out what they've posted, it may save you a lot of time writing your own code.

--------------------- Top Downloads Badge Winners -----------------

• Diego Barragán
• Dirk-Jan Kroon
• Yi Cao
• John D'Errico
• Yair Altman
• Giampiero Campa
• Michael Kleder
• Dr. Siva Malla
• Antonio Trujillo-Ortiz
• Brett Shoelson

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We are happy to announce that virtual badges can now be achieved for participating in MATLAB Central File Exchange . We have 30 badges that anyone can achieve, which will also boost your community profile. Some badges are relatively simple to get while others will depend on how useful your submissions are to others in the community. Check out Ned Gulley's blog post for a great introduction.

Explore resources, ask questions, and discuss topics related to using Simulink to apply power electronics control to Electric Vehicles, Renewable Energy, Battery Systems, Power Conversion, and Motor Control. This is the 3rd MATLAB Central community, after Maker and SimBiology , and is moderated by Tony Lennon . Tony is the Power Electronics Marketing Manager at MathWorks.

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I am fitting a generic TMDD model to date. Model fits look reasonable. Once I create a variant and simulate data for various doses to create observed vs predicted concentrations vs time profile, then simulated concentrations do not match fitted profiles. Simulated concentrations are either significantly higher or lower than the model fits. Not sure what is wrong. Fits look fine but simulated profiles using fitted parameters are all over the place.

Hello all,

I have created an arbitrary model for microtubule behavior. More or less just trying to familiarize with the software. I have created plots for multiple types of reactions that may occur and am looking to now plot the instantaneous derivative of each reaction. Would anyone have any suggestions as to how I could do this? I am familiar with how to do it with a clearly defined function with x,y,z,etc. values. However the 'sbiomodel' command doesn't seem to show me a function so I'm really lost on this.

Thanks for any and all help/suggestions.

Hello,

I have a suggestion for a feature which I think would be nice to add in SimBiology: a "date modified" field for all of the objects (species, parameters, rules, etc). It would be nice for this to be visible in the tables in the GUI, as well as being available through code, and to be able to sort on this field in the GUI. The reason I thought about this is because I just got a model with some updates from a colleague, and this would help me to identify what they updated.

Thank you,

Abed

In previous versions, there was an option for exporting fit results as a report. Now it is not there.

There will be an introductory hand-on SimBiology workshop following ACoP on Friday, Oct 24 at University of Florida, Orlando Campus, sponsored by Prof. Sihem Bihorel.

To register, please send me a direct message from the community site or e-mail me at fbuyukoz[at]mathworks.com. Please also let your colleagues know who might be interested in attending. Space is limited and will be allocated to those who sign up first.

Agenda

Introduction

• Overview of MATLAB and SimBiology
• Navigating the SimBiology desktop environment
• Working with a SimBiology project

Building and Simulating Mechanistic Models, using a TMDD example

• Overview of the building blocks and modeling architecture
• Building models using the SimBiology block diagram editor
• Configuring simulation-related settings (solvers, tolerances, sampling time, etc.)
• Exploring model dynamics and sensitivity using parameter sliders and sensitivity analysis
• Simulating hypothetical scenarios and dosing schedules

Implementing Traditional Compartmental PK/PD Workflows, using a 1 compartment PK model as example

• Importing, processing and visualizing data
• Performing non-compartmental analysis (NCA)
• Estimating parameters using nonlinear regression and population-based methods

Programmatic SimBiology and Integration with MATLAB

• Writing custom analysis tasks
• Automating workflows using MATLAB scripts

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ACoP10 Workshop – October 19, 2019

QSP Model Development Using gQSPSim: A GUI-Based Open-Source Platform for SimBiology Models

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IS there a quick and easy way to calculate AUC in SimBiology without exporting results to an NCA analysis>?

can we directly get the SD of the concentration-time AUC after fitting in Simbiology?

Hi, How do I get a numeric integral from a function that uses Excel file input data? I have been able to import the excel file but am having trouble continuing the code,please guide me, thank you

We have a Systems Biology and Biotechnology Specialization on Coursera which has the following specific courses:

1. Introduction to Systems Biology

2. Experimental Methods in Systems Biology

3. Network Analysis in Systems Biology

4. Dynamical Modeling Methods for Systems

5. Integrated Analysis in Systems Biology

6. Systems Biology and Biotechnology Capstone

For "Systems Biology and Biotechnology Capstone", "Dynamical Modeling Methods for Systems", and ":Integrated Analysis in Systems Biology", MATLAB is used for mathematical models and bioinformatics analyses. All assignments with dynamical models are also presented as MATLAB codes and SimBiology Models. The Systems Biology Specialization covers the concepts and methodologies used in systems-level analysis of biomedical systems. Successful participants will learn how to use experimental, computational and mathematical methods in systems biology and how to design practical systems-level frameworks to address questions in a variety of biomedical fields. In the final Capstone Project, students will apply the methods they learned in five courses of specialization to work on a research project.

Here is the link to all of these courses:

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/systems-biology

If you have any question about these courses please let me know.

Iman Tavassoly MD, PhD Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Hi, I am intrigued by the idea of using the simbiology stochastic solvers for a project that I have so far coded in the idnlgrey framawork.

Some of the ODE right hand sides (ionic fluxes) in my model are given via fitobjects.

My question is: can I use a fit object in simbiology? Or should I figure out an analytical form and use it as a custom reaction rate?

Thanks, Francesco

On using Simbiology, I am realizing how wonderful it is! It is equivalent and infact better than much commercial software available in the market for hefty prices (not to name anyone in purpose). Moreover, the product is backed up by the world leaders in software engineering - MATLAB (which gives more confidence to the product). It would be very helpful if someone can share the list or some of the PubMed indexed publication on population pharmacokinetics in which Simbiology is utilized for modeling and computation.

Identification of model (one compartment, two compartments or three compartments) which a drug follows is an important step before population pharmacokinetic modeling. I am aware that the graph between the concentration vs time, gives an idea of the number of compartment a drug follows.

But is there a standard way to explore and determine the number of compartment a drug follows in a more objective manner. This would also be helpful to determine the model in which the data needs to be fit. In addition, a note on determining the order of reaction is also welcomed and would make the discussion complete.

Fulden and I will have a booth at PAGE next week. Come and chat with us to learn the latest with MATLAB and SimBiology for PK/PD, PBPK, and QSP modeling.

I use Simbiology for population PK-PD model development. During the model fitting of data, I understand that the model diagnostics play a major decisive role in selecting the suitable model. Hence would like to make it clear regarding the interpretation of the model diagnostics.

If for example, I have two models. First model: DFE= 411, LogLikelihood = - 807.6 (minus 807.6), AIC = 1633.2 , BIC = 1647.2 and RMSE = 1.92 Second model: DFE= 410, LogLikelihood = - 888.8 (minus 888.8), AIC = 1797.6 , BIC = 1813.2 and RMSE = 0.34 Which among the model is better and why? What are the individual interpretation of DFE, LogLikelihood, AIC, BIC and RMSE?

In PK-PD research paper generally, they take Objective Function value as decisive model diagnostics. What is the Objective Function Value in Simbiology? I did some literature search and found that Objective Function Value is -2 times LogLikelihood value? So should I multiply the LogLikelihood value given in Simbiology by - 2 to obtain Objective Function Value? Moreover, if the LogLikelihood value is multiplied with -2 then the entire interpretation will be changing (as minus will reverse the direction). So please guide in this regard and give your valuable inputs.

Hi I would like to improve my skills in PK/PD modelling using Simbiology. Are you going to organize any courses in the near future? Many thanks Anas