title: TumorML: Concept and requirements of an in silico cancer modelling markup language.
abstract: This paper describes the initial groundwork carried out as part of the European Commission funded Transatlantic Tumor Model Repositories project, to develop a new markup language for computational cancer modelling, TumorML. In this paper we describe the motivations for such a language, arguing that current state-of-the-art biomodelling languages are not suited to the cancer modelling domain. We go on to describe the work that needs to be done to develop TumorML, the conceptual design, and a description of what existing markup languages will be used to compose the language specification.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, Wolfson Building, Oxford OX1 3QD, United Kingdom. david.johnson@cs.ox.ac.uk
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.forename: Jonathan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cooper
authors.forename: Steve
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: McKeever
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D000818:Animals; D003198:Computer Simulation; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D011381:Programming Languages; D012984:Software; D012985:Software Design