title: Field Markup Language: biological field representation in XML.
abstract: With an ever increasing number of biological models available on the internet, a standardized modeling framework is required to allow information to be accessed or visualized. Based on the Physiome Modeling Framework, the Field Markup Language (FML) is being developed to describe and exchange field information for biological models. In this paper, we describe the basic features of FML, its supporting application framework and its ability to incorporate CellML models to construct tissue-scale biological models. As a typical application example, we present a spatially-heterogeneous cardiac pacemaker model which utilizes both FML and CellML to describe and solve the underlying equations of electrical activation and propagation.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.forename: Nigel H
authors.initials: NH
authors.lastname: Lovell
authors.forename: Socrates
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dokos
mesh_terms: D001683:Biological Clocks; D006801:Humans; D019146:Hypermedia; D020407:Internet; D008954:Models, Biological; D012849:Sinoatrial Node / Q000502:physiology