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A Web Tool for Generating High Quality Machine-readable Biological Pathways
Published on: February 8, 2017
The systems biology markup language (SBML): a medium for representation and exchange of biochemical network models
1Control and Dynamical Systems, MC 107-81, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA. sysbio-team@caltech.edu
Motivation:
Molecular biotechnology now makes it possible to build elaborate systems models, but the systems biology community needs information standards if models are to be shared, evaluated and developed cooperatively.
Results:
We summarize the Systems Biology Markup Language (SBML) Level 1, a free, open, XML-based format for representing biochemical reaction networks. SBML is a software-independent language for describing models common to research in many areas of computational biology, including cell signaling pathways, metabolic pathways, gene regulation, and others.
Availability:
The specification of SBML Level 1 is freely available from http://www.sbml.org/
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