title: The systems biology markup language (SBML): a medium for representation and exchange of biochemical network models.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Molecular biotechnology now makes it possible to build elaborate systems models, but the systems biology community needs information standards if models are to be shared, evaluated and developed cooperatively.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We summarize the Systems Biology Markup Language (SBML) Level 1, a free, open, XML-based format for representing biochemical reaction networks. SBML is a software-independent language for describing models common to research in many areas of computational biology, including cell signaling pathways, metabolic pathways, gene regulation, and others.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  The specification of SBML Level 1 is freely available from http://www.sbml.org/
authors.affiliation: Control and Dynamical Systems, MC 107-81, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA. sysbio-team@caltech.edu
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mesh_terms: D003628:Database Management Systems; D016208:Databases, Factual; D004282:Documentation; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation / Q000502:physiology; D019146:Hypermedia; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D008660:Metabolism / Q000502:physiology*; D008954:Models, Biological; D008956:Models, Chemical; D011381:Programming Languages; D012984:Software; D012985:Software Design; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled