Hinxton, Wednesday 25th March 2009

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the thirteenth release of BioModels Database.

In this release, 42 new models entered the curated branch. The public version of BioModels Database now contains 211 models in the curated and 124 in the non-curated branch. Together these 335 models comprise 28726 species and 36093 reactions. Some of the existing models have been slightly changed to correct unit inconsistencies and to enhance reusability. Also the annotations of some existing models have been updated. The database now features around 13818 cross-references.

After the last data release, the BioModels Database software has been enhanced to alter some new features. Also the first mirror site has been online on 26th February, 2009.

Some features concerning public users are:
* "Static" URLs have been introduce in order to make the reference to specific models easier. For instance, to reference the model Tyson1991_CellCycle_6var (BIOMD0000000005) one can now use http://www.ebi.ac.uk/biomodels-main/BIOMD0000000005 beside the usual http://www.ebi.ac.uk/biomodels-main/publ-model.do?mid=BIOMD0000000005. * A text description of the models, in PDF, is available in the drop-list format menu. It is generated using SBML2Latex. * Links were added from entities defined by assignment rules to their definition.

For more details, please check:
http://www.ebi.ac.uk/biomodels-main/static-pages.do?page=release_25March2009

BioModels Database is developed by the teams of Nicolas Le Novère (EMBL-EBI, United-Kingdom) and Michael Hucka (SBML Team, Caltech, USA) in collaboration with Upinder Bhalla (DOQCS, National Center for Biological Sciences, India), Ion Moraru (the Virtual Cell, USA), Jacky Snoep (JWS Online, Stellenbosch (ZA) University, ZA).

BioModels Database development is funded by the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (Le Novère team), the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (Le Novère team), the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (SBML team and Le Novère team), and the National Center for Research Resources (Virtual Cell team).

BioModels Database also benefited from the help of Herbert Sauro (Washington University, USA) and Hiroaki Kitano (Systems Biology Institute, Japan), and from the funds of the DARPA (Sauro team).

A big thank you to all collaborators and submitters.

We also want to thank the SBML community for their support and the tools they provide and develop.

The BioModels Database Team
http://www.ebi.ac.uk/biomodels

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