[cellml-discussion] [Fwd: Visual model design and editing capabilities for CellML]

[Andrew Miller]

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Subject: 	Visual model design and editing capabilities for CellML
Date: 	Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:03:14 +1300
From: 	Abhishek Tiwari <a.tiwari at auckland.ac.nz>
To: 	team at cellml.org, Andrew Miller <ak.miller at auckland.ac.nz>, David 
Nickerson <david.nickerson at gmail.com>



Hi all,
Here I am attaching a proposal document "Visual model design and editing 
capabilities for CellML", which I created long back and only few of you 
have accessed the document. The document is more like a conceptual 
sketch of how we can make CellML tools more user friendly  and 
versatile. I don't claim that this will be very useful for CellML team 
especially when document is incomplete, but it can convey the concepts 
and requirements. In recent there have been a lot of discussion about 
metadata specification roadmap and I thought this would be appropriate 
time to get  feedback from CellML team and other users, as concept 
describe in document may need some extended versions of these 
specifications. To develop a visual model design and editing 
capabilities for CellML, we need
1) Defined set of symbols for network diagrams, like SBGN or Edinburgh 
Pathway Notation but more optimized for CellML. (Do we need CellML 
sepcific visual notations or  we should fallow existing  standards ? )
2) Model visual representation metadata specification (updated 
http://www.cellml.org/Members/jlaw060/cellml-metadata-roadmap/), it will 
be closely related with visual notation system we select for CellML tools
The terms, definition and other requirements mentioned in proposal are 
not standard at all, and open for comments and feedbacks.

thanks for valuable time and comments/suggestions.
Abhishek


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