A simulator for spatially extended kappa models

Oksana Sorokina (1) , Anatoly Sorokin (1) , J. Douglas Armstrong (2) , Vincent Danos (3, 4)

1 School of Biological Sciences
2 School of Informatics [Edimbourg]
3 CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
4 DI-ENS - Département d'informatique - ENS Paris

Spatial Kappa is a simulator of models written in a variant of the rule-based stochastic modelling language Kappa, with spatial extensions. Availability: The spatial kappa simulator is an open-source project licensed under the LGPLv3, with Java source, binaries and manual available at

Domaines: Informatique [cs]; Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]

Oksana Sorokina, Anatoly Sorokin, J. Douglas Armstrong, Vincent Danos. A simulator for spatially extended kappa models. Bioinformatics, 2013, 29 (23), pp.3105-3106. ⟨10.1093/bioinformatics/btt523⟩. ⟨hal-01976409⟩