Failure to open an example in SimBiology

I wanted to open an example in Simbiology but it did not work. How to solve this issue?

The command, openExample('simbio/VirtualPatientsSimBiologyModelAnalyzerExample'), is from Matlab help center.

Answer 1

[Rishav]

Hi 日曜,

I see you are using MATLAB R2023a and trying to access the following example:

>> openExample("simbio/VirtualPatientsSimBiologyModelAnalyzerExample")

You are not able to access this example, because it is available from R2023b or later versions to access.

Please refer to the following documentation for more details on the example:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/simbio/ug/generate-virtual-population.html

[Florian Augustin]

Hi,

you can probably work through the example using the project tumor_growth_vpop_sa.sbproj, which is included in SimBiology in MATLAB R2023a. To start the SimBiology Model Analyzer with this project you can run

simBiologyModelAnalyzer tumor_growth_vpop_sa.sbproj

in the MATLAB Command Window.

-Florian

[Shawn]

Thanks, Florian. This command works. BTW, the letter “B” should be capitalized in “simBiologyModelAnalyzer".

[Florian Augustin]

Thank you! I corrected the typo.

Answer 2

[Joe Myint]

Hi Shawn.

To add to what Florian and Rishav have said, there is a way to see an archived doc for a previous release.

For eg., the following link points ot the same example in R2023a doc where it had the same instruction that Florian gave (before it got updated later).

Explore Biological Variability with Virtual Patients Using SimBiology Model Analyzer - MATLAB & Simulink (mathworks.com)

The url has this form:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/releases/<ML_version>/simbio/****.html

FYI:

The documentation that you see by default on our mathworks website always points to the latest MATLAB version. Another way to navigate to see an archived doc of a previous relase is as follows:

1. Go to Documentation - MATLAB & Simulink (mathworks.com)
2. On the top right corner, click "Other Releases".
3. Then click a specific release that correspond to your MATLAB version.

Hope it helps,

Joe