LyoPRONTO is an open-source user-friendly tool to simulate and optimize freezing and primary drying in lyophilizers written using Python.
Original authors: Gayathri Shivkumar, Petr S. Kazarin and Alina A. Alexeenko. Maintained and updated by Isaac S. Wheeler.
A web-based GUI is available for this software at http://lyopronto.geddes.rcac.purdue.edu.
Download this repository, then in your preferred command line navigate to the containing directory (so that LyoPronto is a subdirectory).
Execute:
python3 LyoPronto.main -m
This will execute the file main.py in an appropriate scope. Parameters can be changed in main.py. Files listing the inputs and outputs will be generated in the current directory, along with some plots of temperature, pressure, and drying progress vs. time.
A video tutorial by the authors illustrating this process can be found on LyoHUB's YouTube channel.
G. Shivkumar, P. S. Kazarin, A. D. Strongrich, & A. A. Alexeenko, "LyoPRONTO: An Open-Source Lyophilization PRocess OptimizatioN TOol", AAPS PharmSciTech (2019) 20: 328.
The noted paper is open access, and can be found here.
Copyright (C) 2019, Gayathri Shivkumar, Petr S. Kazarin and Alina A. Alexeenko.
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
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By request, this software may also be distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL); for permission, contact the authors or maintainer.