Hi all, Just wanted to see what people think about using the BioModels qualifiers (http://biomodels.net/index.php?s=Qualifiers) in CellML models? i.e., following the SBML annotation specification (see section 6 of the SBML level 2 version 2 specification).
The reason I ask is that I am starting to look at how to reference external data, for example to justify a parameter value or provide experimental data for use in making a graph. At least for these examples the http://biomodels.net/model-qualifiers/isDescribedBy qualifier seems quite appropriate - where the referenced resource could be a journal publication to justify a parameter value or a reference to some experimental data. Before progressing too far with this, I thought I'd better check. One problem I can see immediately is that the http://biomodels.net/model-qualifiers/is and/or http://biomodels.net/biology-qualifiers/is qualifiers are pretty much the same as the cmeta:bio_entity already defined in the CellML Metadata Specification. So is there already something in the CellML metadata specification that will let me reference arbitrary (possibly external) resources? Is it ok to just use the BioModels qualifiers that we want without supporting them all? Or is there some other way to achieve the same result? I know Carey did some initial work looking at using the XML Resource Directory Description Language (RDDL, www.rddl.org) to reference external data. To make full use of this (especially in regard to model curation), I think we would need to define our own natures (roles) and purposes (arcroles) - which would essentially result in the same metadata as using the BioModels qualifiers but with different namespaces. David. -- David Nickerson, PhD Research Fellow Division of Bioengineering Faculty of Engineering National University of Singapore Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ cellml-discussion mailing list [email protected] http://www.cellml.org/mailman/listinfo/cellml-discussion
