Quintessa

Scientific Software Development and Application Services

Quintessa provides a range of services related to the development and application of scientific software including general-purpose software products, in-house mathematical modelling, tools, custom software applications, and online modelling tools and databases.

Our growing scientific software development portfolio includes:

  • AMBER - flexible compartmental modelling software product
  • TESLA - software product supporting complex decisions with uncertain evidence
  • QPAC - general-purpose modelling tool for rapid prototyping
  • Custom - software tailored to specific client needs
  • Online - applications and databases
  • Downloads - documentation and software including free (non-commercial) software, e.g. GraphGrabber, Portfolio Picker and the Laplace Transform inverter tool LATIN

Our commercial software is developed under a Quality Management System accredited to TickITplus scheme and the BS EN ISO 9001:2015 standard, and is engineered in a structured manner by small project teams that include both software developers and domain experts.

In addition to developing software, we are able to formulate problems in mathematical and/or statistical terms and implement the associated models in appropriate software tools, including third-party tools such as COMSOL, GoldSim and BowTieXP, as well as our own in-house tools. We apply mathematical and statistical techniques ranging from ‘back of the envelope’ estimates using spreadsheets to sophisticated simulations of strongly coupled processes depending on the nature of the problem to be assessed.