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PopED version 2.13 is now released 2012-06-05 00:46 - PopED
The main features of this release is the ability to include run files from the GUI. This enables post- and pre processing of your optimizations, e.g. adaptive design within the GUI. Another feature is that completely user defined models can be entered directly in the GUI, e.g. easier to write multiple models with vector notation.

PopED version 2.12 is now released 2011-06-05 00:46 - PopED
The main features of this release is the option to optimize/execute in parallel. Other script features are; inclusion of covariances in the random effect in the FIM, possibility to optimize individuals in design groups faster etc.
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PopED version 2.11 is now released 2010-08-18 13:55 - PopED
This release enables PopED to run with FreeMat instead of Matlab. Furthermore, several new features including Laplace approximation for expectation integration, Ds-optimal design, occasions, BFGS minimization etc. are included in the GUI.
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PopED version 2.10 is now released 2009-07-15 11:34 - PopED
This release enables PopED GUI to be run in other operating systems (e.g. Unix) with the Mono package. Furthermore, new features are efficiency translations and updated functionality to run within Matlab 2009
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PopED Version 2.09 is now released 2009-06-18 12:36 - PopED
This release contains among other features: possibilities to work without the COM-server, more templates and lots of "behind the scene coding improvements" in the script version to make the code more efficicent.
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PopED version 2.08 is now released 2008-06-12 16:54 - PopED
This release contains among other features the possibility to use discrete variables and inter occasion variability
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Overview of PopED

PopED 2.x is a Optimal Experimental Design tool for Non-Linear Mixed Effect Models.

PopED 2.x is based on Matlab scripts and, for Windows .NET users or Mono users, a Graphical User Interface (GUI) is available.

The PopED GUI is a Windows based program written in the language C# .NET 2.0 that will wrap around the script version of PopED (written in Matlab) that performs the calculations needed to get an optimal design. The purpose of the GUI is to get an easy way to build up an experiment and to optimize the design variables in that experiment. There are also tools available for interpretation of the outcome of the optimal design and ways to validate models and simulate models prior to the optimal design. All these tools are accessible via the script version of PopED but then the user needs knowledge about the Matlab programming language and how to set up an experiment in the Matlab environment, therefore the GUI was developed to minimize the skills needed by the user in terms of programming. The PopED GUI also provides model templates and examples that will help the user to set up their own experiments. Some knowledge in the Matlab language might be useful but the model templates should give a good introduction to defining PopED models in Matlab. PopED could also be run in Parallel using a message passing system or within Matlab.

The PopED development team consists of Joakim Nyberg, Sebastian Ueckert, Eric Strömberg, Mats O. Karlsson and Andrew Hooker, and is based at the Pharmacometrics research group, within the Department of Pharmaceutical Biosciences at Uppsala University.