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Hinxton, Wednesday 16th June 2009

Dear colleagues,

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

In this release, 5 new models have gained entry to the curated branch.
The public version of BioModels Database now contains 216 models in the
curated and 196 in the non-curated branch. Together these 412 models
comprise 28901 species and 36264 reactions. Some of the existing models
have been slightly changed for correction and to enhance reusability.
Also the annotations of some existing models have been updated. The
database now features around 14611 cross-references.

Out of the 196 models that are in the non-curated branch, 92 models are
imported from the CellML repository (http://www.cellml.org/), which
would subsequently be moved to the curated branch in future.

After the last release, the BioModels Database software has been
enhanced to alter some new features.

Some features concerning public users are:
* Submission of models now accepts models encoded in SBML Level 2 Version 4
* On the homepage, besides "Search", there is another button "Go to the
model". After giving the model's name or ID, user could directly go the
model presentation page.
* Subversion is adopted for models revision control. When a model is
submitted or replaced, a copy of the model will be go into SVN repository.
* In model's presentation page, there is a new tab called Curation, in
which, user can find curation result and all revisions of the model.
Authorized user also could download the past revisions or choose
different revisions and compare them.
* On the top left of model presentation page, there are links for
downloading models in different versions of SBML level 2. The link of
curated version is highlighted with bold font. Other versions are
automatically generated by using libsbml.
* BioModels Database now stores more complete information of Taxonomy
terms to help improving the search result.
* Along with the release, there are also some bugs fixed.

For more details, please check:
http://www.ebi.ac.uk/biomodels-main/static-pages.do?page=release_16June2009

BioModels Database is being developed by the Computational Neurobiology
group (EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute, United-Kingdom) and the
SBML Team (California Institute of Technology, USA). Collaborators
include 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).

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

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