Options

PK-Sim® can be customized using several options. To do this, click on the Options Button within the Utilities Ribbon Tab.

General Tab

Numerical Properties

  • Allows scientific notation: You can specify if parameter values and results are displayed in scientific notation and if they are very small or large.

  • Decimal place: You can specify the number of decimal places displayed for parameter values and results.

  • Absolute tolerance and Relative tolerance: You can specify the absolute and relative tolerance to control the error of the ODE solver. Changes will only affect simulations that are created after changing values.

  • Maximum number of processors to use for tasks that can be executed in parallel (population simulations, parameter identification, parallel execution of simulations).

  • Number of bins: number of bins to display in histograms of populations/population simulations for parameter distribution.

Look and Feel

  • Active skin: The program's graphical appearance can be changed by changing the skin in the Skins group next to the Options icon.

  • Number of recent file items shown: Changes the number of recent documents displayed within the File Tab. The program needs to be restarted for the changes to take effect.

  • Preferred view layout: Choose from either tabbed or accordion view, e.g., the Compound window.

  • Restore opened view when loading project: Open tabs (e.g., particular simulations, individuals, or compounds) are saved upon saving and restored when re-opening the project. Warning—this may significantly impact a project's loading time!

  • Show software update notification if available: When enabled and connected to the internet, a check for new versions of PK-Sim® is done automatically.

Defaults

  • Species and Population: Changes the default species and default population used for the creation of a new individual or population.

  • Parameter layout: Changes the default parameter layout used for parameters shown within the Anatomy & Physiology tab of an individual and the Parameters tab of a simulation.

  • Lipophilicity, Fraction unbound, and Solubility: You can specify the defaults for the description used for the Experiment input box when a new compound is created.

  • Population analysis: After the first simulation run, an analysis window opens automatically. This option sets the default type of this first analysis ('Time Profile', 'Box Whisker', ...).

  • Chart y scale: Default scaling (lin or log) of the y axis in new time-profile charts.

Icon Sizes

You can change the size of the icons displayed within the Tree view, the Tabs, and the Context menu

Template Database

  • Template database path: The path to the template database. You can create a new template database by clicking on

  • Load metabolites when loading compound: Choose whether or not to load the metabolites of a compound when loading a (parent) compound.

Colors

  • Formula parameter: Changes the background color for parameters that are calculated by a formula.

  • Parameter changed: Changes the background color for formula-calculated parameters that have been changed by the user.

  • Chart background and Chart diagram background: Changes the chart colors. For simulation charts, this is the default if no other color is specified in the Chart Editor of the Results Tab.

  • Color group observed data from same folder when dropping to chart: If enabled, when adding observed data sets to a chart via drag-and-drop from a folder (or multiple folders) within the "Observed Data" group, all data sets within one folder will get the same color.

Application Tab

  • MoBi Executable Path: Path to the location of the MoBi.exe file

Specify the path to a species-specific Expression Database you would like to use by clicking on the three dots in the Expression Database column in the row of the species you require.

Linking a species-specific expression database to an individual.

The available expression databases can be downloaded from the gene expression databases repository.

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