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  • Systems Biology
  • Computational Biology
  • Biochemical Simulation

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  • Quantitative simulation and analysis are crucial in systems biology.
  • COPASI is a powerful tool for biological systems analysis, supporting SBML.
  • Complex tasks like stochastic simulation and parameter fitting demand substantial computational power.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop an open-source package, ParaCopasi, for parallelizing COPASI tasks.
  • To investigate the performance and acceleration capabilities of ParaCopasi.
  • To demonstrate the application of ParaCopasi in parameter estimation for biochemical models.

Main Methods:

  • Development of an open-source package, ParaCopasi.
  • Implementation of parallel processing for COPASI tasks on multicore CPUs.
  • Performance evaluation across various computational workloads and task types (homogeneous and heterogeneous).

Main Results:

  • ParaCopasi effectively exploits multicore CPUs for accelerated task completion.
  • Parallel efficiency shows a positive correlation with total workload.
  • High parallel efficiency (≥95%) achieved for both homogeneous and heterogeneous tasks with adequate workload.

Conclusions:

  • ParaCopasi offers significant performance improvements for COPASI users.
  • The package scales effectively from desktops to high-performance computing clusters.
  • ParaCopasi is a valuable tool for accelerating biochemical kinetics model calibration and other complex analyses.