Dear CellML community, First of all, sorry for having be silent so long. We indeed read the exchanges about curation, and enjoyed them. It is nice to see that the various communities are committed to increase the quality of the quantitative models. We do not have much advice to give. The best we can do is to describe the procedure we use to curate our own models in BioModels Database. Hopefully you will find some reusable ideas. And if you have any comment, suggestion or criticism, they are most welcome!
Users can currently submit models in CellML and SBML (VCML is coming). All the models are then converted to SBML, which is our internal format. Using libSBML, we check the syntax of the files. If a model is incorrect, it is rejected. Therefore, we accept only syntactically correct SBML files. The models are then entered in the curation pipeline. The first curation step is the consistency check. This is done by libSBML, which checks that all the rules listed in the SBML spec are fulfilled (e.g. units consistency, coherence of symbols etc.). Once a model is dubbed consistent, the export formats are generated (CellML, SciLab, XPP, BioPAX, GIF, SVG). The model can then be moved to the non-curated branch, or downloaded for further curation. The latter step is the verification of MIRIAM compliance. The curator checks that the structure of the model reflects the one described in the paper, that all the values are correct, and finally that one can reproduce published results *using different software than the one used by the authors*. If the model passes MIRIAM checks, it can be moved to the curated branch for annotation. We release the models publicly twice a year. I hope those explanations are clear enough. We remain available for any additional details. Various additional information can be found at: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/compneur-srv/biomodels/doc/curation.html http://www.ebi.ac.uk/compneur-srv/biomodels/doc/annotation.html Best regards, The BioModels Database team -- Nicolas LE NOVERE, Computational Neurobiology, EMBL-EBI, Wellcome-Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SD, UK Tel: +44(0)1223494521, Fax: +44(0)1223494468, Mob: +44(0)7833147074 http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~lenov, AIM:nlenovere, MSN:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ cellml-discussion mailing list [email protected] http://www.cellml.org/mailman/listinfo/cellml-discussion
