Specify name of object
The Name
property identifies a SimBiology® object. Compartments, species, parameters, and model objects can be referenced
by other objects using the Name
property, therefore Name
must be unique for these objects. However, species names need only be unique within each
compartment. Parameter names must be unique within a model (if at the model level), or within
each kinetic law (if at the kinetic law level). This means that you can have nonunique species
names if the species are in different compartments, and nonunique parameter names if the
parameters are in different kinetic laws or at different levels. Note that having nonunique
parameter names can cause the model to have shadowed parameters and that may not be best
modeling practice.
Use the function sbioselect
to find an object
with the same Name
property value.
In addition, note the following constraints and reserved characters
for the Name
property in objects:
Model and parameter names cannot be empty, the word time
,
all whitespace, or contain the characters [
or ]
.
Compartment and species names cannot be empty, the
word null
, the word time
or
contain the characters ->
, <->
, [
or ]
.
However, compartment and species names can contain
the words null
and time
within
the name, such as nulldrug
or nullreceptor
.
Reaction, event, and rule names cannot be the word time
or
contain the characters [
or ]
.
If you have a parameter, a species, or compartment
name that is not a valid MATLAB® variable name, when you write
an event function, an event trigger, a reaction, reaction rate equation,
or a rule you must enclose that name in brackets. For example, enclose [DNA
polymerase+]
in brackets. In addition, if you have the same
species in multiple compartments you must qualify the species with
the compartment name, for example, nucleus.[DNA polymerase+]
, [nuclear
complex].[DNA polymerase+]
.
For more information on valid MATLAB variable names, see matlab.lang.makeValidName
, matlab.lang.makeUniqueStrings
, and isvarname
.
Applies to | Objects: abstract kinetic law, configuration set, compartment, event, kinetic law, model, parameter, reaction, RepeatDose, rule, ScheduleDose, species, unit, or variant |
Data type | Character vector |
Data values | Any character vector except reserved words and characters |
Access | Read/write |
Create a model object named my_model
.
modelObj = sbiomodel ('my_model');
Add a reaction object to the model object. Note the use of brackets because the names are not valid MATLAB variable names.
reactionObj = addreaction(modelObj, '[Aspartic acid] -> [beta-Aspartyl-PO4]')
MATLAB returns:
SimBiology Reaction Array Index: Reaction: 1 [Aspartic acid] -> [beta-Aspartyl-PO4]
Set the reaction Name
and verify.
set (reactionObj, 'Name', 'Aspartate kinase reaction'); get (reactionObj, 'Name')
MATLAB returns:
ans = Aspartate kinase reaction