Hinxton, Wednesday 3st December 2008 Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the twelfth release of BioModels Database. In this release, 23 new models entered the curated branch. The public version of BioModels Database now contains 208 models in the curated and 85 in the non curated branch. Together these 293 models comprise 27238 species and 34443 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 13483 cross-references. Accompanying this data release, the BioModels Database software has been improved: * The number of all models related to a term is now displayed when viewing the Gene Ontology based model tree. * The search engine now also scans through models already annotated but not yet in the public branch. * For the Web Services users, there is a new feature in the Web Services to retrieve sub-models by giving the model id and different element's (such as reaction, species or compartment) ids. Additionally from this release on, BioModels Database switched to a new authentication system. It doesn't influence the curators and annotators, but is more secure and flexible. For curation and annotation there are some other features added. For instance, annotators will be able to add curation comments when annotating the models. For more details got to: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/biomodels-main/static-pages.do?page=release_03December2008 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). A big thank you to all collaborators and submitters Also we 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 -- Lukas Endler Comp. Neurobiol. Group EMBL/EBI (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mobile: +447500547176 skype: lukasendler _______________________________________________ cellml-discussion mailing list cellml-discussion@cellml.org http://www.cellml.org/mailman/listinfo/cellml-discussion
