The University of Sheffield
Department of Computer Science

WeiWei Cheng MSc Dissertation 2005/06

"A user interface for cellular models"

Supervised by Professor NA Monk

Abstract

During last a few years, we have experienced the remarkable progress on systems biology. Many scientists showed their interests in this field and migrated to it. In the mean time, plenty of biological models have been developed to help people obtain a deep understanding of living systems. However, most of the models are built on typical context which can not be simply used by non-specialist. Easy to use and friendly GUIs for these models are expected.

This project aims to develop such GUIs for cellular models, especially. The whole GUI is based on Matlab which is powerful software with many built-in computational functions, algorithms, and graphics functions. With this GUI, non-specialist users can simply specify the properties of cells, and run simple models based on these properties.