The Systems Biology Markup Language (SBML): Language Specification for Level 3 Version 1 Core
Abstract
This document defines Version 1 of the Systems Biology Markup Language (SBML) Level 3 Core, an electronic model representation format for systems biology. SBML is oriented towards describing biological processes of the sort common in research on a number of topics, including metabolic pathways, cell signaling pathways, and many others. SBML is defined neutrally with respect to programming languages and software encoding; however, it is oriented primarily towards allowing models to be encoded using XML, the eXtensible Markup Language (Bray et al., 2004). This document contains many examples of SBML models written in XML. Formal schemas describing the syntax of SBML, as well as other materials and software, are available from the SBML project web site, http://sbml.org/. The SBML project is not an attempt to define a universal language for representing quantitative models. The rapidly evolving views of biological function, coupled with the vigorous rates at which new computational techniques and individual tools are being developed today, are incompatible with a one-size-fits-all idea of a universal language. A more realistic alternative is to acknowledge the diversity of approaches and methods being explored by different software tool developers, and seek a common intermediate format—a lingua franca—enabling communication of the most essential aspects of the models. The definition of the model description language presented here does not specify how programs should communicate or read/write SBML. We assume that for a simulation program to communicate a model encoded in SBML, the program will have to translate its internal data structures to and from SBML, use a suitable transmission medium and protocol, etc., but these issues are outside the scope of this document.
Additional Information
The development of SBML was originally funded by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) under the ERATO Kitano Symbiotic Systems Project during the years 2000{2003. From 2003 to the present, funding for development of SBML and associated software such as libSBML and the SBML Test Suite has been provided chiefly by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (USA) via grant numbers GM070923 and GM077671. Additional grant funding has in the past been provided by National Human Genome Research Institute (USA); the International Joint Research Program of NEDO (Japan); the JST ERATO-SORST Program (Japan); the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture; the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology; the BBSRC e-Science Initiative (UK); the DARPA IPTO Bio-Computation Program (USA); the Army Research Office's Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies (USA); and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (USA).Attached Files
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- GM070923
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences
- GM077671
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences
- National Human Genome Research Institute
- International Joint Research Program of NEDO (Japan)
- JST ERATO-SORST Program (Japan)
- Japanese Ministry of Agriculture
- Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
- BBSRC e-Science Initiative (UK)
- DARPA IPTO Bio-Computation Program
- Army Research Office (ARO) Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research
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2014-11-03Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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- The Systems Biology Markup Language (SBML): Language Specification
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- L3 V1 Core