Question: Minimize the length of an expression

Quite often when i use maple I generate expressions that are of vast length, that with a pen and paper can be reduced in length by carefully factorizing, multiplying out and dividing through.

I am wondering if i am missig somethig- if this is a problem all maple users deal with, or if its just a limitation of the program.

Today, maple generated:

d*B[2211](t)/dt = 2*k[a2]*beta*k[d2]*B[2211]*(alpha*beta*R[b]*k[a1]^2+alpha*beta*R[b]*k[a1]*k[a2]+2*alpha*R[b]*k[a1]*k[d1]+2*alpha*R[b]*k[a1]*k[d2]+alpha*R[b]*k[a2]*k[d1]+alpha*R[b]*k[a2]*k[d2]+beta*k[a1]*k[d1]+beta*k[a1]*k[d2]+k[d1]^2+3*k[d1]*k[d2]+2*k[d2]^2)
/(alpha*beta^2*R[b]*k[a1]^2*k[a2]+alpha*beta^2*R[b]*k[a1]*k[a2]^2+alpha*beta*R[b]*k[a1]^2*k[d1]+alpha*beta*R[b]*k[a1]^2*k[d2]+3*alpha*beta*R[b]*k[a1]*k[a2]*k[d1]+3*alpha*beta*R[b]*k[a1]*k[a2]*k[d2]+alpha*beta*R[b]*k[a2]^2*k[d1]+alpha*beta*R[b]*k[a2]^2*k[d2]+alpha*R[b]*k[a1]*k[d1]^2+3*alpha*R[b]*k[a1]*k[d1]*k[d2]+2*alpha*R[b]*k[a1]*k[d2]^2+2*alpha*R[b]*k[a2]*k[d1]^2+3*alpha*R[b]*k[a2]*k[d1]*k[d2]+alpha*R[b]*k[a2]*k[d2]^2+beta^2*k[a1]*k[a2]*k[d1]+beta^2*k[a1]*k[a2]*k[d2]+2*beta*k[a1]*k[d1]^2+3*beta*k[a1]*k[d1]*k[d2]+beta*k[a1]*k[d2]^2+beta*k[a2]*k[d1]^2+3*beta*k[a2]*k[d1]*k[d2]+2*beta*k[a2]*k[d2]^2+2*k[d1]^3+7*k[d1]^2*k[d2]+7*k[d1]*k[d2]^2+2*k[d2]^3)
+(-2*k[d1]-2*k[d2])*B[2211]
+2*k[d1]*B[2211]*(alpha*beta*R[b]*k[a1]*k[a2]+alpha*beta*R[b]*k[a2]^2+alpha*R[b]*k[a1]*k[d1]+alpha*R[b]*k[a1]*k[d2]+2*alpha*R[b]*k[a2]*k[d1]+2*alpha*R[b]*k[a2]*k[d2]+beta*k[a2]*k[d1]+beta*k[a2]*k[d2]+2*k[d1]^2+3*k[d1]*k[d2]+k[d2]^2)*k[a1]*beta
/(alpha*beta^2*R[b]*k[a1]^2*k[a2]+alpha*beta^2*R[b]*k[a1]*k[a2]^2+alpha*beta*R[b]*k[a1]^2*k[d1]+alpha*beta*R[b]*k[a1]^2*k[d2]+3*alpha*beta*R[b]*k[a1]*k[a2]*k[d1]+3*alpha*beta*R[b]*k[a1]*k[a2]*k[d2]+alpha*beta*R[b]*k[a2]^2*k[d1]+alpha*beta*R[b]*k[a2]^2*k[d2]+alpha*R[b]*k[a1]*k[d1]^2+3*alpha*R[b]*k[a1]*k[d1]*k[d2]+2*alpha*R[b]*k[a1]*k[d2]^2+2*alpha*R[b]*k[a2]*k[d1]^2+3*alpha*R[b]*k[a2]*k[d1]*k[d2]+alpha*R[b]*k[a2]*k[d2]^2+beta^2*k[a1]*k[a2]*k[d1]+beta^2*k[a1]*k[a2]*k[d2]+2*beta*k[a1]*k[d1]^2+3*beta*k[a1]*k[d1]*k[d2]+beta*k[a1]*k[d2]^2+beta*k[a2]*k[d1]^2+3*beta*k[a2]*k[d1]*k[d2]+2*beta*k[a2]*k[d2]^2+2*k[d1]^3+7*k[d1]^2*k[d2]+7*k[d1]*k[d2]^2+2*k[d2]^3)

quite clearly there are expressions in there that can be factorised by (k[a1]+k[a2]) and the two quotients have the same denominator. Is there any way of minimizing the length of this expression by factorizing where appropriate, merging denominators when appropriate etc?