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INTERNET-BASED SOFTWARE FOR MODELING BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS
IBI's product offering, ProcessDB, helps molecular cell biologists manage and test their increasingly complex mechanistic hypotheses.
ProcessDB does this with a bio-savvy graphical user interface that helps users formulate, visualize, compare, modify, manage and test their own
mechanistic theories of cellular function. All models in ProcessDB can be automatically combined with user-specified experimental protocols and
exported to the Berkeley Madonna solver for testing against experimental data. ProcessDB allows investigators to know with precision what their
theories predict, and speeds discovery of mechanisms that account for all of the available data. ProcessDB, which is accessable from any
Internet-connected computer, offers a highly secure and professionally
maintained tool that supports mechanistic knowledge management for research laboratories working on complex biological or biomedical problems.
OVERVIEW OF ProcessDB DOCUMENTATION
To find out more about ProcessDB and the modeling of biological systems, the following information is available:
Tutorial: this is an animated document that shows you the creation of a model using the Forms interface of ProcessDB.
Getting Started: this page tells you how to install and quickly get started using the ProcessDB software.
User Guide: this is a document that describes in detail the 6-step process for constructing and evaluating a biological hypothesis or theory. This document includes a number of examples from published models.
Reference Manual: You can go directly to detailed information about every screen and diagram page of the ProcessDB software from this reference manual.
Computational Cell Biology Textbook: This online textbook can be used by advanced undergraduate and graduate students and professionals in the biomedical sciences or in biomedical engineering who want or need to use modern computer modeling approaches to test theories against experimental data. The textbook is focused on practical application; it is a handbook, a guidebook, and a map for the process of formulating and testing biological models. The reader will learn a step-by-step method, applicable to a wide range of biological problems.
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