GENESIS - The GENEric SImulation System for Modelling State Transitions.
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SUBMITTER: Gillman MS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5627703 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep
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GENESIS - The GENEric SImulation System for Modelling State Transitions.
Journal of open research software 20170901 1
This software implements a discrete time Markov chain model, used to model transitions between states when the transition probabilities are known <i>a priori</i>. It is highly configurable; the user supplies two text files, a "state transition table" and a "config file", to the Perl script genesis.pl. Given the content of these files, the script generates a set of C++ classes based on the State design pattern, and a main program, which can then be compiled and run. The C++ code generated is base ...[more]
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