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A kinetics model is a specification of reactions between hypothesized molecular participants. These models that represent biological, chemical, gene, etc, reactions and their products allow us to observe and study how, for example, cells behave and react.
We introduce a graphical user interface (GUI) to KINSOLVER's engine called GKIN. GKIN allows one to design the circuit of a kinetics model, modify, manipulate, maintain, generate input files to KINSOLVER, generate graphical reports using Gnuplot, and also list the set of the differential equations, all of these from the same Java application/applet. To our knowledge, there is no such comprehensive interface in any of the software packages that exist for simulation of biochemical reaction networks.

GKIN also needs a configuration file. Before launching GKIN download GKIN.properties
  1. Install Java (if it is not installed in your system)
  2. Download GKIN version 2.0
  3. Install Gnuplot (to plot your data)
    • Download Gnuplot from http://www.gnuplot.info/ and unzip it.
      Make sure you specify where you installed Gnuplot in the GKIN.properties file.
  4. Install the Solver
    • Read the README file in GKIN_v2 folder for instructions on compiling and executing the Server and the Solver. It runs on Unix and PCs