Biotech, Pharmaceutical, and Medical

Industry Segments

• Bioinformatics
• Pharmacokinetics / Pharmacodynamics
• Biosignal Processing and Data Analysis
• Biomedical Imaging
• Medical Devices and Instrumentation Design
• Lab Automation and Instrument Control

See also: MathWorks products for computational biology

Pharmacokinetics / Pharmacodynamics

In pharmacokinetics, researchers use graphical tools to build compartmental systems. These systems can include models of the arterial system, lungs, muscles, kidneys, liver, and other organs to simulate a physiological system. Graphical user interfaces to these models can provide easy access to the system parameters and generate graphs of simulation output.

Simulink® model of the physiological control system that regulates blood glucose levels through the secretion of insulin. Courtesy of IEEE Press.

Scientists use MathWorks tools to build models to improve estimation of drug dosage and to understand kinetic mechanisms. This entails defining and numerically solving dynamic systems through sets of linked differential equations. In Simulink software, differential equations can easily be modeled and linked. They can be represented in transfer function or state space form.

Learn more about MathWorks products for modeling and simulation.