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Phoenix Concepts

Phoenix Terminology

license. System functions include drug modeling, statistical calculations,

and data manipulation.

» Project - a project can contain multiple workflows which can include mul-

tiple operational objects and data sets. A project is similar to a workspace in

WinNonlin and a scenario in PKS.

» Right viewing panel - the main panel in Phoenix that shows the setup

options for any item that is selected in the Object Browser. This includes

operational objects, data sets, and items contained in the Code, Tables, and

BQL folders.

» Setup tab - allows users to select from a list of options in order to set up an

operational object to perform its function.

» Tabl es fold er - contains HTML tables created by the Table object.

» Template s - operational objects and procedures in a workflow can be saved

as a template that can be re-applied and re-run with different data sets. Tem-

plates do not save mappings to external data sets. Templates eliminate the

need to recreate a set of operational procedures each time the same type of

analysis or procedure has to be performed.

» Workbook - used to contain multiple worksheets. However, the Data

folder can contain multiple worksheets without using a workbook.

» Workflow - an object that contains operational objects. Workflows can be

set up to perform operational procedures using operational objects. In

Phoenix, a workflow is two things: a term used to describe the flow of work

in a project and an operational object used to group together other opera-

tional objects. A workflow operational object can be used to create a tem-

plate.

» Workflow level view - the workflow level view provides a schematic of all

operational objects and procedures in a workflow. Selecting a workflow

allows a user to see the diagram of all objects, and the main setup panels

and results for all objects.

» Worksheet - the fundamental data container used by Phoenix, and is simi-

lar to a Microsoft

Excel worksheet. Phoenix can create internal work-

sheets to contain data such as dosing values. Worksheets are mapped to

operational objects as inputs and new worksheets are created to contain the

results of object calculations. Just like in Excel, multiple worksheets can be

combined into a workbook.

– Several of Phoenix’s operational objects can use external worksheets,

which must be imported into Phoenix, and internal worksheets, which