Table 1:
Web-based applications | JWS Onlinea | Virtual Cell | PyBios | WebCell | SYCAMORE | BASIS | |
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User interface for model building | Wizard/ form-based | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Script-based | – | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
Diagrammatic | – | ✓ | |||||
Kinetic rate expression for model building | Predefined | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
User-defined | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Multi-compartmental graphical representation | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
Parameters and initial conditions changeable | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Internal page navigation | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Simulation results | Graph | Graph/Text | Graph | Graph/Text | Graph/Text | Graph/Text | |
User guides and documentation | Text | Text/ Screenshots | Text | Text/ Screenshots | Text/ Screenshots | Text | |
URL (version) | http://jjj.biochem.sun.ac.za | http://www.vcell.org (v4.3.1) | http://pybios.molgen.mpg.de (v1.0) | http://webcell.org (v2.0) | http://sycamore.eml.org | http://www.basis.ncl.ac.uk |
aJWS Online provides a library of predefined models and as such does not allow users to build their own models.