Linear compartmental systems: II—A software to obtain the symbolic kinetic equations

Abstract

Software has been implemented in this work to take full advantage of the characteristics of current operating systems and to provide the optimized symbolic kinetic equations for the linear compartmental systems derived in part I of this series. This software, called RM-w2011, is implemented using the C# language and runs under Windows XP, Vista and 7. It is applicable to any linear compartmental system, closed or open, and with a zero input in one or more of its compartments. Apart from the optimized equations that the software provides, if so desired, non optimized equations are offered to compare the advantage of using optimized equations while using non optimized ones, whenever they do not coincide. Moreover, the software circumvents the limitations of other previous software tools that operated with non optimized symbolic equations.