BioModels Database
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BioModels Database is a free and open-source database for storing, exchanging and retrieving published quantitative models of biological interest. Deposition of models upon publication is currently supported by Nature Publishing Group and PLoS.
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[edit] What is BioModels Database
BioModels Database is an online resource for storing and serving quantitative models of biomedical interest. All the models in BioModels Database have been described in the peer-reviewed scientific literature.
The models stored in the curated branch of BioModels Database are compliant with MIRIAM, the standard of model curation and annotation. The models have been simulated by curators to check that when intentiated in simulations, they provide the same results that described in the publication. Model components are annotated, so the users can conveniently identify each model element and retrieve further information from other resources.
Modellers can submit the models in SBML and CellML. Models can subsequently be downloaded in SBML, CellML, [XPP], SciLab, BioPAX and some graphic formats, such as GIF, SVG and even graphic Java applet.
[edit] Content of BioModels Database
BioModels Database announced its 6th Release on Oct. 2, 2006. That release, the largest in terms of number of models or reactions since the initial one, is a milestone in BioModels DB history. Currently, there are 70 curated models, and 26 non-curated models are also made available to the public. These models amount to 4125 species, 4890 reactions and comprise 3074 cross-references to other data resources.
[edit] Organization of BioModels Database development
BioModels Database is developed in collaboration by the [Computational Neurobiology Group] at the EMBL-EBI, UK and the SBML Team in Caltech, USA, plus the [Herbert Sauro's team] at the Keck Graduate Institute, USA, the [Systems Biology Institute], Japan and [JWS Online], Stellenbosch University, ZA.
[edit] Funding for BioModels Database
BioModels Development has benefited from the funds of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory and the National Institute of General Medical Sciences.
[edit] External references
- Official website of BioModels Database
- BioModels Database: a free, centralized database of curated, published, quantitative kinetic models of biochemical and cellular systems
- Minimum information requested in the annotation of biochemical models (MIRIAM)
- www.biomodels.net
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