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Computational and systems biology are rapidly growing fields of academic study, but unfamiliar researchers are impeded by a lack of accessible, programming-optional, modelling tools. To address this gap, I developed BioSSA, a web framework built on JavaScript and D3.js which

Computational and systems biology are rapidly growing fields of academic study, but unfamiliar researchers are impeded by a lack of accessible, programming-optional, modelling tools. To address this gap, I developed BioSSA, a web framework built on JavaScript and D3.js which allows users to explore a small library of curated biophysical models as well as create and simulate their own reaction network. The mathematical foundation of BioSSA is the Stochastic Gillespie Algorithm, which is widely used in mathematical modeling and biology to represent chemical reaction systems. SGA is particularly well-suited as an introductory modelling tool because of its flexibility, broad applicability, and its ability to numerically approximate systems when analytical solutions are not available. BioSSA is freely available to the community and further improvements are planned.

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    • Developing a Stochastic Modeling App for Biophysics Education
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    2023-05
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