IDEAS: A Parameter Identification Toolbox with Symbolic Analysis of Uncertainty and Its Application to Biological Modelling

Abstract IDEAS (IDEntification and Analysis of Sensitivity) is a Matlab toolbox that automatically estimates parameters of ODE models and assesses their uncertainty, via a symbolic computation of the sensitivity functions. The use of the toolbox is illustrated on a real-life biological model, in the field of microbiology. IDEAS helped improving the model structure, by revealing a lack of practical identifiability that may have not been noticed otherwise.

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