Bioinformatics Advance Access originally published online on August 29, 2006
Bioinformatics 2006 22(21):2709-2710; doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btl456
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Tropicalparameter estimation and simulation of reactiondiffusion models based on spatio-temporal microscopy images


1 Department of Theoretical Bioinformatics, German Cancer Research Center Im Neuenheimer Feld 580, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
2 Institute for Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology, University of Heidelberg Im Neuenheimer Feld 364, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
*To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Summary: Tropical is a software for simulation and parameter estimation of reactiondiffusion models. Based on spatio-temporal microscopy images, Tropical estimates reaction and diffusion coefficients for user-defined models. Tropical allows the investigation of systems with an inhomogeneous distribution of molecules, making it well suited for quantitative analyses of microscopy experiments such as fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP).
Availability: Tropical is available free of charge for academic use at http://www.dkfz.de/tbi/projects/modellingAndSimulationOfCelluarSystems/tropical.jsp after signing a material transfer agreement.
Contact: r.eils{at}dkfz.de
Supplementary information: http://www.dkfz.de/tbi/projects/modellingAndSimulationOfCelluarSystems/tropical.jsp
Received on June 11, 2006; revised on August 15, 2006; accepted on August 19, 2006