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These are mathematical models of low complexity, but have the advantage of being able to capture essential properties of gene-regulatory networks. However, current implementations of BNs only focus on different sub-aspects of this model and do not allow for a seamless integration into existing preprocessing pipelines.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Results: \u00a0BoolNet efficiently integrates methods for synchronous, asynchronous and probabilistic BNs. This includes reconstructing networks from time series, generating random networks, robustness analysis via perturbation, Markov chain simulations, and identification and visualization of attractors.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Availability: The package BoolNet is freely available from the R project at http:\/\/cran.r-project.org\/ or http:\/\/www.informatik.uni-ulm.de\/ni\/mitarbeiter\/HKestler\/boolnet\/ under Artistic License 2.0.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Contact: \u00a0hans.kestler@uni-ulm.de<\/jats:p><jats:p>Supplementary information: \u00a0Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btq124","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2010,4,9]],"date-time":"2010-04-09T00:19:08Z","timestamp":1270772348000},"page":"1378-1380","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":371,"title":["BoolNet\u2014an R package for generation, reconstruction and analysis of Boolean networks"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"26","author":[{"given":"Christoph","family":"M\u00fcssel","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Institute of Neural Information Processing, University of Ulm and 2 Department of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Ulm, 89081 Ulm, Germany"}]},{"given":"Martin","family":"Hopfensitz","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Institute of Neural Information Processing, University of Ulm and 2 Department of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Ulm, 89081 Ulm, Germany"}]},{"given":"Hans A.","family":"Kestler","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Institute of Neural Information Processing, University of Ulm and 2 Department of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Ulm, 89081 Ulm, Germany"},{"name":"1 Institute of Neural Information Processing, University of Ulm and 2 Department of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Ulm, 89081 Ulm, Germany"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2010,4,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023012507514949500_B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"16","DOI":"10.1186\/1751-0473-3-16","article-title":"Boolean network simulations for life scientists","volume":"3","author":"Albert","year":"2008","journal-title":"Source Code Biol. 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