FBC Package & SBMLToolbox 4.1.0 Getting Started

Today the SBML Team released version 4.1.0 of the SBML Toolbox. The news? It can be used with the SBML Level 3 Flux package. So what do you need to get it set up?

1. Grab the beta FBC package for your system from:
   • Windows / OSX we have binaries for you: http://sourceforge.net/projects/sbml/files/libsbml/5.3.0/experimental/binaries/
     
   • Linux: unfortunately we don’t have binaries as the matlab versions on linux are highly subjective to your libc / libstdc++. Instead please grab the source package: http://sourceforge.net/projects/sbml/files/libsbml/5.3.0/experimental/src/ , and configure using CMake (the key points to watch out is to pass along the parameters: ENABLE_FBC=ON, WITH_MATLAB=ON, after that simply make the dependencies happy, I believe you need to pass along the MATLAB_ROOT_PATH). After the installation the only thing I had to do on my machine is to set the environment variable LD_PRELOAD=<location of your systems libstdc++> and then it works all right.
     
2. Grab SBML Toolbox 4.1.0: http://sourceforge.net/projects/sbml/files/SBMLToolbox/4.1.0/
3. unzip / start Matlab / change into the toolbox directory, run the ‘install’ command.
4. run the tests to be sure all is working fine for you:

   cd Test
   RunTest

   
   

Please let us know how things are going for you!