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What is MCSim? . Browse the User's Manual online How do I get MCSim? Contacts License

1. What is MCSim?

MCSim is a simulation package which allows you to:

• Design your own mathematical models (eventually dynamic,via ordinary differential equations),
• Perform Monte Carlo stochastic simulations,
• Make Bayesian inference through Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulations.

It has been developed by Frederic Bois, Don Maszle, Ken Revzan, Sophie Tillier and Zeng Yuan. MCSim is GNU Software (see the license below).

2.Browse the User's Manual online

• You can read the User'sManual online before attempting to use MCSim.
• Check also the User's Manual update file provided with the source code for last minute updates and tips.

3. How do I get MCSim?

The official version (5.0.0, dated Jan 04 2005) of the package is written in C.

We provide a gzipped tar archive which contains:

• A User's Manual (in Texinfo, Postscript, PDF and HTML formats)
• The ASCII source code for the Mod program to preprocess your models
• The ASCII source code for the MCSim routines to link to your models
• Examples of model and simulation files

You will need a C compiler and linker to compile the sources and obtain executables. Version 5.0.0 also requires the GNU scientific Library (gsl) to be installed.
For Unix or Linux machines we recommend GNU gcc.
For other machines, standard C compilers should work.

To download MCSim version 5.0.0 (1034 KB) click here.

4. Contacts

You can contact us by e-mail ( Frederic.Bois@ineris.fr ) for more information, comments about this page, or if you need further help.

5. License

MCSim is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNUGeneral Public License for more details.