Software and standards poster presented at NISB 2012

This is a poster I presented at the NISB meeting in 2012: NISB 2012 Poster

Generic annotation in constraint based models

During COMBINE 2013 Frank and myself tried to come up with a compromise proposal that would combine the best elements of the two current "generic annotation" proposals that are under discussion.

When we presented this at COMBINE 2013 it was well received by the members of the community that attended the FBC session. For background on this discussion please see this document.

We call this proposal AdditionalProperties and an initial specification can be found here.

COMBINE 2013 presentations

It was really fantastic to leave a great meeting like COMBINE in Paris and fly straight to South Africa for a vacation. I'll post some vacation pictures elsewhere but for now here are links to my presentation and the slides I made while chairing the FBC session.

A short presentation: Modelling at genome scale: introducing the SBML3 FBC package

And some technical stuff on a new proposal for generic annotation and a formal UML description of the gene association extension discussed during HARMONY 2013.

COMBINE 2013: standards ride again!

Just finished having a very productive meeting at COMBINE 2013, nice to see how standards are developing, especially, that rhere are a number of things that are finally stable enough to implement. Heading up the list: SBML Groups and COMBINE Archive.

Feeling all geeked out so perhaps this is a great time for a vacation ;-)

ICSB 2013 SBML3FBC and PySCeS CBMPy

The real advantage of a "human readable" model definition format

A colleague of mine wanted to submit a model along with a paper that they had published and had somehow converted from their native format into SBML, unfortunately this had not been entirely successful and I was asked to diagnose the problem after COPASI reported a serious error in the file.

Using PySCeS I converted the file to the PySCeS model format where some translation errors were immediately apparent, could be compared to the original equation and fixed. Reloading the file, testing the steady-state solution and re-exporting it to SBML was a piece of cake.

Not bad going for a Friday afternoon ;-)