kirschner_1998_panetta-email

Email to John Panetta - panetta@wagner.bd.psu.edu, 02/08/07

Dear Dr Panetta,

My name is James Lawson, I work at the University of Auckland Bioengineering Institute in Auckland, New Zealand. Our group, lead by Dr Poul Nielsen, is developing an XML based language called CellML which is designed to facilitate creation and sharing of mathematical models of, but not limited to, cell biology and physiology. If you're interested in finding out more about CellML, please visit our website, www.cellml.org

I am the curator of the repository of models we currently have, which includes about 280 models. The reason for my correspondence with you is that the model you and your colleague Denise Kirschner described in the paper "Modeling immunotherapy of the tumor – immune interaction" are coded into CellML in our model repository. I hope you approve of our efforts in translating your model into CellML.

Unfortunately the CellML version of your model that we have encoded is not in a working state and is unable to be simulated as yet.

I realise that the paper was published almost ten years ago, so my request might reach a little too far, but I was wondering if you might be able to provide the original XPPAUT code for the model. I've used XPPAUT .ode files from many models to fix our CellML representations of these models, so I believe this would be very useful.

Thank you very much. Any assistance you can give would be greatly appreciated it.

Kind regards, James Lawson

James Lawson, MSc(Hons) CellML.org Repository Curator Bioengineering Institute University of Auckland, NZ