title: StochKit2: software for discrete stochastic simulation of biochemical systems with events.
abstract: CONCLUSIONS
  StochKit2 is the first major upgrade of the popular StochKit stochastic simulation software package. StochKit2 provides highly efficient implementations of several variants of Gillespie's stochastic simulation algorithm (SSA), and tau-leaping with automatic step size selection. StochKit2 features include automatic selection of the optimal SSA method based on model properties, event handling, and automatic parallelism on multicore architectures. The underlying structure of the code has been completely updated to provide a flexible framework for extending its functionality.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  StochKit2 runs on Linux/Unix, Mac OS X and Windows. It is freely available under GPL version 3 and can be downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/projects/stochkit/.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  petzold@engineering.ucsb.edu.
authors: Department of Computer Science, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA.
authors: Kevin R
authors: KR
authors: Sanft
authors: Sheng
authors: S
authors: Wu
authors: Min
authors: M
authors: Roh
authors: Jin
authors: J
authors: Fu
authors: Rone Kwei
authors: RK
authors: Lim
authors: Linda R
authors: LR
authors: Petzold
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001669:Biochemical Phenomena; D003198:Computer Simulation; D008954:Models, Biological; D012984:Software; D013269:Stochastic Processes