title: PLMaddon: a power-law module for the Matlab SBToolbox.
abstract: PLMaddon is a General Public License (GPL) software module designed to expand the current version of the SBToolbox (a Matlab toolbox for systems biology; www.sbtoolbox.org) with a set of functions for the analysis of power-law models, a specific class of kinetic models, set in ordinary differential equations (ODE) and in which the kinetic orders can have positive/negative non-integer values. The module includes functions to generate power-law Taylor expansions of other ODE models (e.g. Michaelis-Menten type models), as well as algorithms to estimate steady-states. The robustness and sensitivity of the models can also be analysed and visualized by computing the power-law's logarithmic gains and sensitivities.
authors.affiliation: Systems Biology and Bioinformatics Group, Department of Computer Science. University of Rostock, 18051 Rostock, Germany. olaf.wolkenhauer@uni-rostock.de
authors.forename: Julio
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Vera
authors.forename: Cheng
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Yvonne
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Oertel
authors.forename: Olaf
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Wolkenhauer
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003198:Computer Simulation; D008954:Models, Biological; D011381:Programming Languages; D012984:Software; D049490:Systems Biology / Q000379:methods*