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17th BioModels Database ReleaseHinxton, Tuesday 27th April 2010We are pleased to announce the seventeenth release of BioModels Database. In this release, 20 new models have been published. The public version of BioModels Database now contains 249 models in the curated and 224 in the non-curated branch. Together, these 473 models comprise 37852 species and 44886 reactions. Some of the existing models have been converted to SBML Level 2 Version 4, while others have been corrected with annotational updates to enhance their reusability. The database now features 18950 cross-references. Along with the data release, there have been dramatic improvements to both the software availability and the documentation. This should greatly help users wishing to implement their own local version of the BioModels Database infrastructure. For more details, please refer to the developer resources. [Download All Models Under SBML Format] AcknowledgementsBioModels Database is being developed by the Computational Neurobiology group (EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute, United-Kingdom) and the SBML Team (California Institute of Technology, USA). The collaborators are the Database Of Quantitative Cellular Signalling (National Center for Biological Sciences, India), the Virtual Cell (University of Connecticut Health Center, USA), JWS Online (Stellenbosch University, ZA) and the CellML team (Auckland Bioengineering Institute, NZ). BioModels Database development is funded by the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (Computational Neurobiology group), the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (Computational Neurobiology group), the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (SBML team and Computational Neurobiology group), and the National Center for Research Resources (Virtual Cell team). Model curators and annotators: Vijayalakshmi Chelliah, Lukas Endler, Nicolas Le Novère (Alumni: Harish Dharuri, Enuo He, Lu Li, Rainer Machne, Maria Schilstra, Bruce Shapiro) Developers: Camille Laibe, Nicolas Rodriguez (Alumni: Mélanie Courtot, Marco Donizelli, Arnaud Henry, Chen Li, Lu Li) Former collaborators and funders: BioModels Database also benefited from the help of Herbert Sauro (University of Washington, USA) and Hiroaki Kitano (Systems Biology Institute, Japan), and from the funds of the DARPA (Sauro team). External contributors: BioModels Database would not exists without the continuous support of many people, whether by their contribution of models, of software, or by their constructive comments and criticisms. It is unfortunately impossible to acknowledge all of them here, without risking to be unfair. Therefore, a big collective thank-you all. BioModels Database is built thanks to many third-party free software such as libSBML, Apache Tomcat, Xindice, Lucene, Xalan, Xerces, Axis, Jena and MySQL, plus all the free software coming with the GNU/Linux systems. Main software used to curate models: CellDesigner, COPASI, Jarnac, MathSBML, RoadRunner, SBMLOdeSolver, SBMLeditor, SBMLmerge, JigCell and XPP-Aut. Statistics
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