Supplementary Materials

This page contains additional materials that were useful for the 2011 HARMONY meeting.

BioPAX

BioPAX is a standard language that aims to enable integration, exchange, visualization and analysis of biological pathway data.

The last specification of is BioPAX Level 3.

BioPAX is supported by many pathway database or processing tools.

SBGN

The Systems Biology Graphical Notation (SBGN), is a set of community developed standard graphical languages to describe biological knowledge. It is currently made up of three languages describing Process Descriptions, Entity Relationships and Activity Flows.

The last specifications are SBGN PD Level 1 Version 1.3, SBGN ER Level 1 Version 1.1 and SBGN AF Level 1 Version 1.

We are aware of several data resources and software supporting SBGN.

SBML

The Systems Biology Markup Language (SBML) is a computer-readable format for representing models of biological processes. SBML is suitable for models of metabolism, cell signaling, and other processes.

The latest stable specification is Level 3 Version 1 Core.

More than 180 software supporting SBML can be found in the SBML software guide.

Related standardization efforts

The following efforts will also be discussed at HARMONY.

MIRIAM URIs

The Minimal Information Required In the Annotation of Models (MIRIAM),is an effort to standardize the metadata added to a computational model in biology. One the key tools to achieve this goal is to share stable identifiers to data-sets. The is the purpose of MIRIAM URIs.

SED-ML

The Simulation Experiment Description Markup Language (SED-ML) is a proposed format to encode steps performed in the simulation and analysis of a computational model.