Efficient stochastic simulation of reaction–diffusion processes via direct compilation

  • Authors:
  • Mieszko Lis;Maxim N. Artyomov;Srinivas Devadas;Arup K. Chakraborty

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • Bioinformatics
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We present the Stochastic Simulator Compiler (SSC), a tool for exact stochastic simulations of well-mixed and spatially heterogeneous systems. SSC is the first tool to allow a readable high-level description with spatially heterogeneous simulation algorithms and complex geometries; this permits large systems to be expressed concisely. Meanwhile, direct native-code compilation allows SSC to generate very fast simulations. Availability: SSC currently runs on Linux and Mac OS X, and is freely available at http://web.mit.edu/irc/ssc/. Contact: mieszko@csail.mit.edu Supplementary information:Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.