BUILD: a program generator for modelling experimental biological data
Institut de Biologie et de Génétique Cellulaires IBCG-CNRS, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse Cedex
1Centre d'Elaboration des Matériaux et d'Etudes Structurales CEMES-CNRS, 29 rue Jeanne Marvig, 31055 Toulouse Cedex
2Laboratoire de Pharmacologie et de Toxicologie Fondamentales LPTF-CNRS, 205 route de Narbonne, 31077 Toulouse Cedex, France
BUILD is a program generator acting at source code level. The generated code corresponds to a whole application in order to model a biological process of interest using an iterative adjustment of experimental data. The program is designed to be executed in command line mode for processing of multiple data files with an individual execution control for each file. The results are completed by modular statistical and graphical functions. This approach has been shown to reduce the time and the amount of work needed for program development, debugging and maintenance. To date, BUILD has been successfully used in mathematical analysis of phenomenological approaches, but other fields of activity, such as educational software, are also conceivable.
; accepted on November 24, 1993