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The SBW-MATLAB interface.

Cameron Wellock·Vijay Chickarmane·Herbert M Sauro
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SUMMARY: The SBW-MATLAB Interface allows MATLAB users to take advantage of the wide variety of tools available through SBW, the Systems Biology Workbench (Sauro et al. (2003) OMICS, 7, 355-372). It also enables MATLAB users to themselves create SBW-enabled tools which can be freely distributed.

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Cameron Wellock, Vijay Chickarmane, Herbert M Sauro. 2004-11-05. The SBW-MATLAB interface.. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics%2Fbti110

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