Reproducible and flexible simulation experiments with ML-Rules and SESSL

Abstract

Summary: The modeling language ML-Rules allows specifying and simulating complex systems biology models at multiple levels of organization. The development of such simulation models involves a wide variety of simulation experiments and the replicability of generated simulation results requires suitable means for documenting simulation experiments. Embedded domainspecific languages, such as SESSL, cater to both requirements. With SESSL, the user can integrate diverse simulation experimentation methods and third-party software components into an executable, readable simulation experiment specification. A newly developed SESSL binding for ML-Rules exploits these features of SESSL, opening up new possibilities for executing and documenting simulation experiments with ML-Rules models.