title: Computer program for the equations describing the steady state of enzyme reactions.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The derivation of steady-state equations is frequently carried out in enzyme kinetic studies. Done manually, this becomes tedious and prone to human error. The computer programs now available which are able to accept reaction mechanisms of some complexity are focused only on the strict steady-state approach.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Here we present a computer program called REFERASS, with a short computation time and a user-friendly format for the input and output files, able to derive the strict steady-state equations and/or those corresponding to the usual assumption that one ore more of the reversible steps are in rapid equilibrium. This program handles enzyme-catalysed reactions with mechanisms involving up to 255 enzyme species connected by up to 255 reaction steps, subject to limits imposed by the memory and disk space available.
authors.affiliation: Escuela Universitaria Politecnica, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Varon
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Garcia-Sevilla
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Garcia-Moreno
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Garcia-Canovas
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Peyro
authors.forename: R G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Duggleby
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D004798:Enzymes / Q000378:metabolism*; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D007700:Kinetics; D008433:Mathematics; D008954:Models, Biological; D012984:Software; D012985:Software Design
chemical_list: D004798:Enzymes