RuleBender provides an easy-to-use interface for the popular rule-based modeling software package, BioNetGen. It provides an editor with context-sensitive highlighting and syntax checking along with automated model visualization, simulation, and plotting capabilities. RuleBender also provides an automatic journaling capability that keeps all model files and simulation data in a common, chronologically-ordered workspace. RuleBender is written in Java using the Eclipse Rich Client Platform. Installation packages for Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems can be found at http://bionetgen.org along with installation instructions, documentation, and instructional videos. Below are instructions for installing RuleBender.
You can find a step-by-step installation guide here
Most users should head over to the latest RuleBender release and download the appropriate distribution for their OS. To install RuleBender, unzip the RuleBender distribution file, e.g. RuleBender-2.3-lin64.tar.gz, in the directory where you would like RuleBender installed. BioNetGen and RuleBender requires Perl which should be installed by default on MacOS and most Linux flavors, Windows users will need to install a Perl distribution (a good one is Strawberry Perl).
Please click here to see a step-by-step instruction video on how to install and start building models with RuleBender.
These are the latest stable builds
Please see compilation instructions here for instructions on how to build RuleBender from source using Eclipse.
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