Payao: a community platform for SBML pathway model curation.
CONCLUSIONS
Payao is a community-based, collaborative web service platform for gene-regulatory and biochemical pathway model curation. The system combines Web 2.0 technologies and online model visualization functions to enable a collaborative community to annotate and curate biological models. Payao reads the models in Systems Biology Markup Language format, displays them with CellDesigner, a process diagram editor, which complies with the Systems Biology Graphical Notation, and provides an interface for model enrichment (adding tags and comments to the models) for the access-controlled community members.


METHODS
Freely available for model curation service at http://www.payaologue.org. Web site implemented in Seaser Framework 2.0 with S2Flex2, MySQL 5.0 and Tomcat 5.5, with all major browsers supported.


BACKGROUND
kitano@sbi.jp
Matsuoka
Yukiko
Y
The Systems Biology Institute, Tokyo, Japan.
Ghosh
Samik
S
Kikuchi
Norihiro
N
Kitano
Hiroaki
H
D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D016208:Databases, Factual; D053263:Gene Regulatory Networks; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D012984:Software; D049490:Systems Biology; D014584:User-Computer Interface