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This is GEPASI, a general purpose simulator of metabolic pathways.
It is a directed towards research and education; it is meant to be a
very useful tool for modelling biochemical pathways, chemical
reactions,etc. GEPASI is free software covered by the GNU general
purpose license, version 1.
This version of GEPASI runs under MS-Windows 3.0 and 3.1 in standard
or enhanced mode, on 80286 and above microprocessors. A maths co-
processor is not needed but should accelerate the simulations by at
least a factor of 10.
To install GEPASI unzip all the files to a diskette or to a hard-disk
directory; there is no need to do this if you have received GEPASI in
a diskette. Next go to Windows' program manager, select File-Run, and
enter SETUP.EXE (don't forget to include the complete path of the
disk drive and directory where you have unzipped it to).
In order to simulate bichemical pathways, the user must furst define
the reactions that are part of the pathway, all its parameters and
initial concentration of its metabolites (chemical species). GEPASI
then determines the dynamics and steady state (if there is one),
including the coefficients defined in Metabolic Control Analysis.
GEPASI can be used to study metabolic regulation, chemical and enzyme
kinetics including oscillatory and chaotic reactions, etc.
The file GEPASI.WRI contains a cut-down version of a paper to appear
in "Modern trends in Biothermokinetics", edited by J.-P. Mazat, S.
Schuster and M. Rigoulet and published by Plenum Press with a short
description of GEPASI. Another more detailed paper is being submitted
to the journal "Computer Applications in the Biosciences".
For more detailed information see the help file (GEPASI.HLP).
GEPASI (c) 1898,1992 by Pedro Mendes.
prm@aber.ac.uk