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Ron J Keizer1, Michel van Benten, Jos H Beijnen

  • 1Department of Pharmacy & Pharmacology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute/Slotervaart Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ronkeizer@gmail.com

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
|July 15, 2010
PubMed
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Piraña and PCluster software streamline complex pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic modeling with NONMEM. These tools enhance workflow efficiency and enable distributed computing for computationally intensive tasks.

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