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Events

Contain all event objects

Description

Property to indicate events in a model object. Read-only array of Event objects.

An event defines an action when a defined condition is met. For example, the quantity of a species may double when the quantity of species B is 100. An event is triggered when the conditions specified in the event are met by the model. For more information, see Events and Events in SimBiology Models.

Add an event to a Model object with the method addevent (model) method and remove an event with the delete method. See SimBiology.Event for more information.

You can view event object properties with the get command and modify the properties with the set command.

Characteristics

Applies toObject: model
Data typeArray of event objects
Data valuesEvent object. The default is [] (empty).
AccessRead-only

Examples

Add an Event

Create a simple model with a mass action reaction A -> B, where A and B are species. Also add the reaction rate parameter, p1, with a parameter value of 0.5.

model       = sbiomodel('example');
r1          = addreaction(model,'A -> B');
kl          = addkineticlaw(r1,'MassAction');
p1          = addparameter(model,'p1',0.5);
kl.ParameterVariableNames = 'p1';

Increase the amount of species A to 100 at time = 2. You can do this by adding an event object to the model. You must specify the event trigger (time >= 2), and also the event function, which defines what happens when the event is triggered. In this example, the event function is A = 100.

e1 = addevent(model,'time>=2','A = 100');

Simulate the model, and plot the result.

sd = sbiosimulate(model);
sbioplot(sd);