Continued Support and Development of SBML

描述（由申请人提供）：分子生物学家越来越意识到，亚细胞机制的计算建模对于理解人类生物学和在目前收集的大量复杂实验数据的背景下推进医学研究至关重要。如果要共享、评估和合作开发模型，生物界需要商定的信息标准。系统生物学标记语言（SBML）正在成为表示生化反应系统的正式定性和定量模型的事实上的标准交换格式。本提案的长期目标是支持和进一步发展SBML和相关的软件基础设施，以造福计算生物学社区。具体目标如下：

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Molecular biologists are increasingly realizing that computational modeling of sub-cellular mechanisms is crucial for making sense of human biology and advancing medical research in the context of the vast quantities of complex experimental data that are now being collected. The biology community needs agreed-upon information standards if models are to be shared, evaluated and developed co-operatively. The Systems Biology Markup Language (SBML) is becoming a de facto standard exchange format for representing formal qualitative and quantitative models of systems of biochemical reactions. The long-term objectives of this proposal are to support and further develop SBML and related software infrastructure for the benefit of the computational biology community. The specific aims are the following: 1. Work with the community of software developers and users to (a) continue evolving SBML and extending the language into SBML Level 3 with features developers have been requesting, and (b) formalize the SBML language development process and transfer its control to the community. 2. Maintain and extend existing software libraries for working with SBML with facilities for (a) reading and writing SBML Level 3, (b) reading model definitions in other formats including CelIML, and (c) transforming model definitions into other formats such as CelIML, MATLAB, Mathematica, HTML, and others. 3. Produce documentation, including a "best practices" guide to working with SBML, and performing training functions to help educate software developers and modelers in the use of SBML and the software tools available for working with the language.