Bio-ECell version 0.01
======================

Bio::ECell is a Perl interface for the E-Cell Simulation Environment 
version 3 (http://www.e-cell.org/), a generic cell simulation software 
for molecular cell biology researches that allow object-oriented modeling 
and simulation, multi-algorithm/time-scale simulation, and scripting 
through Python. This module allows scripting of sessions with Perl. 

For the details of the E-Cell API, users should refer to the chapter
about scripting a simulation session of E-Cell3 Users Manual, available
at the above-mentioned web-site.

Example:

    use Bio::ECell;

    my $ecell = Bio::ECell::new();

    $ecell->loadModel("simple.eml");
    $ecell->message("Message from Perl!");

    my $logger = $ecell->createLoggerStub('Variable:/:S:Value');
    $logger->create();

    print $ecell->getCurrentTime(), "\n";
    $ecell->run(100);
    print $ecell->getCurrentTime(), "\n";

    my $data = Bio::ECell->ECDDataFile($logger );
    $data->setDataName( $logger->getName() );
    $data->save('S.ecd');



INSTALLATION

To install this module type the following:

   perl Makefile.PL
   make
   make test
   make install

DEPENDENCIES

This module requires these other modules and libraries:

  Inline::Python

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Copyright (C) 2007 by Kazuharu Arakawa (gaou@sfc.keio.ac.jp)

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.5 or,
at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.