Pedro Mendes

**[[ https://www.vbi.vt.edu/faculty/personal_pages/pedro_mendes | Dr. Mendes’ ]]** research at VBI is centered broadly around computer simulation and analysis of biochemical networks. This is comprised of three components: development of simulation software ([[http://www.gepasi.org/|Gepasi]] and now [[http://www.copasi.org/|COPASI]]), modeling of gene expression in the context of metabolic networks, and bioinformatic support for metabolomics. Dr. Mendes is the author of the popular biochemical simulation software [[http://www.gepasi.org/|Gepasi]]. This allows biochemists to model biochemical networks without having to write the mathematics explicitly (the program does that internally). [[http://www.gepasi.org/|Gepasi]] is thus targeted at those biochemists that need to do simulation but cannot spend time programming. More recently Dr. Mendes is engaged in collaboration with Dr. Ursula Kummer of EML Research, which has resulted in a new simulator called [[http://www.copasi.org/|COPAS