Innovation Capabilities & Products
- Software | saCeSS: a parallel global optimization library
The saCeSS library allows solving non-linear programming (NLP) and mixed-integer non-linear programming (MINLP) problems. It also offers efficient local solvers for nonlinear parameter estimation problems associated with complex models (e.g. those described by differential equations).
More information here.
- Capabilities | Assessment of marine ecosystems status
The evaluation of marine ecosystem status, defined in terms of environmental health or integrity and established as what is acceptable to society, as well as the assessment of threats. This involves using indicators of ecosystem extent and condition.
- Software | SensSB: toolbox for the development and Sensitivity analysis of Systems Biology models
Authors: M. Rodríguez-Fernández and J. R. Banga
Description: SensSB is an easy-to-use Matlab®-based sensitivity analysis software toolbox. This tool integrates a variety of local and global sensitivity methods that can be applied to biological models described by ordinary differential equations (ODEs) or differential algebraic equations (DAEs). SensSB is also able to import models in the Systems Biology Mark-up Language (SBML) format.
Available here upon request.
- Capabilities | Development of intelligent and active food labels
Development of smart food labels based on models for oxidation, microbial growth, etc. that let consumers know when food is no longer fit to eat, helping to prevent food waste, and give information on freshness, package temperature, etc.
- Capabilities | Characterization of photosynthetic properties and by-products of phytoplankton
Characterization of the photosynthetic properties and by-products of different phytoplankton species under laboratory, industrial farming and natural conditions.
- Capabilities | Threat assessment and critical control points along seafood value chains
Assessment and development of protocols to identify the most problematic areas and products in terms of microbial contamination and parasitic infestation along the value chain of seafood products.
- Software | SYNBADm: a toolbox for automatic optimal design in synthetic biology
SYNBADm is a Matlab-based toolbox for the automatic design of biological circuits with targeted functions from component libraries.
More information here.
- Capabilities | Conservation, protection and rehabilitation of marine ecosystems
The conservation, protection, and rehabilitation of marine ecosystems and the mitigation of impacts using adaptation strategies. This includes identifying key considerations for the potential design and planning of biodiversity compensation measures and their scope in environmental impact assessments.
- Software | GLOBALm: a clustering method for constrained global optimization problems in Matlab
Method described in Csendes, T., L. Pal, J.O.H. Sendin, J.R. Banga (2008) The GLOBAL Optimization Method Revisited. Optimization Letters, 2(4):445-454.
Software available upon request (email us if interested).
- Capabilities | Development of intelligent sensors for the optimization of food processing and conservation
Development of non-invasive methods and technologies (i.e. hyperspectral imaging technology) for quality inspection of food products.