Cell Illustrator 4.0
Cell Illustrator 4.0 is a software tool that enables biologists to draw, model, elucidate and simulate complex biological processes and systems. It has outstanding drawing capabilities, moreover it allows researchers to model metabolic pathways, signal transduction cascades, gene regulatory pathways as well as dynamic interactions of various biological entities such as genomic DNA, mRNA and proteins.
Cell Illustrator 4.0 models are used to visualize biological pathways, interpret experimental data and test hypotheses. In addition, it provides researchers with model diagrams of publication quality and simulation result charts.
Cell Illustrator 4.0 has new lineup that launches from Browser with Java web start technology, the trial version is available for two weeks from the following websites,
- Cell Illustrator Online 4.0 (mirror)
Book
The book “Foundations of Systems Biology: Using Cell Illustrator and Pathway Databases (Computational Biology)” written by Masao Nagasaki, Ayumu Saito, Atsushi Doi, Hiroshi Matsuno, Satoru Miyano was published by Springer on May 31, 2009. This book describes how to create to create highly complex pathways for simulations and analyses using Cell Illustrator. There is no need for prior knowledge in differential equations or programming. The prerequisites are interest in biology, ability to operate a cell phone, and mathematical ability of a standard middle school student or better.
It is available at amazon.com:
Online Materials
A step-by-step tutorial and an extensive manual are available in PDF format.
A list of sample models can be found at Case Studies