The Systems Biology Markup Language (SBML): Language Specification for Level 3 Version 2 Core

Creators: Hucka, Michael; Bergmann, Frank T.; Dräger, Andreas; Hoops, Stefan; Keating, Sarah M.; Le Novère, Nicolas; Myers, Chris J.; Olivier, Brett G.; Sahle, Sven; Schaff, James C.; Smith, Lucian P.; Waltemath, Dagmar; Wilkinson, Darren J.

Abstract

Computational models can help researchers to interpret data, understand biological functions, and make quantitative predictions. The Systems Biology Markup Language (SBML) is a file format for representing computational models in a declarative form that different software systems can exchange. SBML is oriented towards describing biological processes of the sort common in research on a number of topics, including metabolic pathways, cell signaling pathways, and many others. By supporting SBML as an input/output format, different tools can all operate on an identical representation of a model, removing opportunities for translation errors and assuring a common starting point for analyses and simulations. This document provides the specification for Version 2 of SBML Level 3 Core. The specification defines the data structures prescribed by SBML, their encoding in XML (the eXtensible Markup Language), validation rules that determine the validity of an SBML document, and examples of models in SBML form. The design of Version 2 differs from Version 1 principally in allowing new MathML constructs, making more child elements optional, and adding identifiers to all SBML elements instead of only selected elements. Other materials and software are available from the SBML project website at http://sbml.org/.

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© 2018 Michael Hucka et al., published by De Gruyter. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License. Received: 2017-12-19; Accepted: 2018-02-02; Published Online: 2018-03-09. The development of SBML was originally funded by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) under the ERATO Kitano Symbiotic Systems Project during the years 2000–2003. From 2003 to the present, funding for development of SBML and associated software such as libSBML and the SBML Test Suite has been provided chiefly by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (USA) via grant numbers GM070923 and GM077671. Additional grant funding has in the past been provided by National Human Genome Research Institute (USA); the International Joint Research Program of NEDO (Japan); the JST ERATO-SORST Program (Japan); the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture; the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology; the BBSRC e-Science Initiative (UK); the DARPA IPTO Bio-Computation Program (USA); the Army Research Office's Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies (USA); and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (USA). Additional support has been or continues to be provided by the following institutions, either directly for activities related to SBML or indirectly by supporting the work of present and past SBML Editors: the Beckman Institute at the California Institute of Technology (USA), EML Research gGmbH (Germany), the University of Heidelberg (Germany), the European Molecular Biology Laboratory's European Bioinformatics Institute (UK), the Molecular Sciences Institute (USA), the University of Hertfordshire (UK), the University of Newcastle (UK), the Systems Biology Institute (Japan), and the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (USA).

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