DEBtox information

DEBtox information

Links with more information

• DEBtox Research, for my commercial activities.
• My author page at Leanpub for all my e-books.
• The portal for all information about DEB theory and AmP at https://debportal.debtheory.org/docs/. 
  
• The Dept. of Theoretical Biology of the VU university Amsterdam was terminated. The web site is however still available at https://www.bio.vu.nl/thb/ (though much of the information is outdated).
  
• My lectures from 2006-2014 at www.bio.vu.nl/thb/users/tjalling/lectures. All downloadable in PowerPoint format. This page is not updated anymore.
  
• Roman Ashauer's website about models in ecotoxicology at: www.ecotoxmodels.org. His site contains many more useful links for the modelling enthousiast.
• Information about CREAM at cream-itn.eu. CREAM was a Marie Curie Initial Training Network, funded by the European Commission within the 7th Framework Programme. Several of the projects within the network applied DEB or DEBkiss.
• There is a SETAC interest group on effect modelling with many useful activities: https://www.setac.org/group/SEIGEffectModeling?code=SEIGEffectModeling.
• Free on-line textbook on evironmental toxicology (excellent short texts, though no info on TKTD modelling): https://maken.wikiwijs.nl/147644/Environmental_Toxicology__an_open_online_textbook. 
  

Collaborators

• See the other DEB nodes in DEBnet.
• Roman Ashauer, formerly of the University of York and currently with Syngenta, is also working on DEBtox and GUTS issues (see www.ecotoxmodels.org).

Free tools that you cannot live without

• Need to get data points from a graph out of a publication? Try out the free PlotReader at https://github.com/jornbr/plotreader/wiki. It's free and it works like a charm.
• LaTeX, the document preparation system for nerds. Windows users find everything they need at miktex.org. In addition, you can use TeXnicCenter to give you a user-friendly environment, see www.texniccenter.org.
• Need information about a chemical such as structure, molecular weight, hydrophobicity? Download EPI suite.
• Need to work on the same files from different computers, or share documents with colleagues? Open a DropBox account. Works perfectly for me. For more information about this service, and its vulnerabilities, check out the WikiPedia entry.
• Need to fit GUTS models and want to do it on-line in a simple manner? Check out MOSAIC.
  
• Need to fit GUTS models and don't want to do it on-line? Check out openGUTS.
• Of course, BYOM from this website offers a free Matlab-based framework for a wide range of model analyses.
• In the DEB portal, you can also find Matlab-based software for analyses with the standard DEB animal model and its extensions. This includes the tools to create add-my-pet entries.