[cellml-discussion] 13th release of BioModels Database

[Chen Li]

Hinxton, Wednesday 25th March 2009

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the thirteenth release of BioModels Database.

In this release, 42 new models entered the curated branch. The public 
version of BioModels Database now contains 211 models in the curated and 
124 in the non-curated branch. Together these 335 models comprise 28726 
species and 36093 reactions. Some of the existing models have been 
slightly changed to correct unit inconsistencies and to enhance 
reusability. Also the annotations of some existing models have been 
updated. The database now features around 13818 cross-references.

After the last data release, the BioModels Database software has been 
enhanced to alter some new features. Also the first mirror site has been 
online on 26th February, 2009.

Some features concerning public users are:
* "Static" URLs have been introduce in order to make the reference to 
specific models easier. For instance, to reference the model 
Tyson1991_CellCycle_6var (BIOMD0000000005) one can now use 
http://www.ebi.ac.uk/biomodels-main/BIOMD0000000005 beside the usual 
http://www.ebi.ac.uk/biomodels-main/publ-model.do?mid=BIOMD0000000005.
* A text description of the models, in PDF, is available in the 
drop-list format menu. It is generated using SBML2Latex.
* Links were added from entities defined by assignment rules to their 
definition.

For more details, please check:
http://www.ebi.ac.uk/biomodels-main/static-pages.do?page=release_25March2009

BioModels Database is developed by the teams of Nicolas Le Novère 
(EMBL-EBI, United-Kingdom) and Michael Hucka (SBML Team, Caltech, USA) 
in collaboration with Upinder Bhalla (DOQCS, National Center for 
Biological Sciences, India), Ion Moraru (the Virtual Cell, USA), Jacky 
Snoep (JWS Online, Stellenbosch (ZA) University, ZA).

BioModels Database development is funded by the European Molecular 
Biology Laboratory (Le Novère team), the Biotechnology and Biological 
Sciences Research Council (Le Novère team), the National Institute of 
General Medical Sciences (SBML team and Le Novère team), and the 
National Center for Research Resources (Virtual Cell team).

BioModels Database also benefited from the help of Herbert Sauro 
(Washington University, USA) and Hiroaki Kitano (Systems Biology 
Institute, Japan), and from the funds of the DARPA (Sauro team).

A big thank you to all collaborators and submitters.

We also want to thank the SBML community for their support and the tools 
they provide and develop.

The BioModels Database Team
http://www.ebi.ac.uk/biomodels