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libSRES: a C library for stochastic ranking evolution strategy for parameter estimation
1Computational Biology Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA.
Summary:
Estimation of kinetic parameters in a biochemical pathway or network represents a common problem in systems studies of biological processes. We have implemented a C library, named libSRES, to facilitate a fast implementation of computer software for study of non-linear biochemical pathways. This library implements a (mu, lambda)-ES evolutionary optimization algorithm that uses stochastic ranking as the constraint handling technique. Considering the amount of computing time it might require to solve a parameter-estimation problem, an MPI version of libSRES is provided for parallel implementation, as well as a simple user interface. libSRES is freely available and could be used directly in any C program as a library function. We have extensively tested the performance of libSRES on various pathway parameter-estimation problems and found its performance to be satisfactory.
Availability:
The source code (in C) is free for academic users at http://csbl.bmb.uga.edu/~jix/science/libSRES/
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