How to retrieve specific compartment in Simbiology model by name?

Given a Simbioloogy 'model' I can access/get a specific compartment object if I know the numerical index, e.g.

model.compartments(2)

shows me the 2nd compartment. I can get/set properties from this indexing. Say this compartment is named 'turtle'. Can I get this compartment object from the Name, instead of by index? Something like model.compartments('turtle'), or model.compartments('Name'=='turtle'). although clearly these won't work.

Answer 1

[Arthur Goldsipe]

Hi,

We made the sbioselect function for things like this, and even for more general kinds of searching. In this case, you could do the following:

    sbioselect(model, 'Name', 'turtle', 'Type', 'compartment')

or if you're not worried about other things named 'turtle' you could just do this:

    sbioselect(model, 'Name', 'turtle')

Take a look at the reference page for more examples.

[Colin Phipps]

Thanks so much Arthur for the answer and for incorporating 'turtle' into the response!