You can easily combine a programmed simulation with output recording to a file. Start recording the values of the monitored symbols as describe on the previous pages by pressing the Record button, and entering a name for the file in which the output data will be stored. You can start recording before, or after you have started the programmed simulation.
As an example, the edited input file on the previous page was used to perform a programmed simulation. The symbol parameter values used are listed in the table below (the table was produced manually; at present NetBuilder cannot write or read parameter files, but this will be an option in future versions).
| Component | Delay | Scaling factor | Power | Colour threshold |
| TF1 | 0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 |
| TF2 | 0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 |
| TF3 | 0 | 10.0 | 4.0 | 1.0 |
| Receptor1 | 0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.5 |
| Gene1 | 0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.5 |
| Function1 | 0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.5 |
| Function2 | 0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.5 |
| All links | 0 |
The response in the different cells was recorded, the output file opened in Excel, and the symbol values were plotted, per cell, as a function of evaluation round number. The simulation - just meant to illustrate how to do things in NetBuilder - shows that you get behaviour that would very difficult to predict, even with the very simple model and input used here.
