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MIME Media Type for the Systems Biology Markup Language (SBML)

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Network Working Group                                          B. Kovitz
Request for Comments: 3823                                       Caltech
Category: Informational                                        June 2004


     MIME Media Type for the Systems Biology Markup Language (SBML)

Status of this Memo

   This memo provides information for the Internet community.  It does
   not specify an Internet standard of any kind.  Distribution of this
   memo is unlimited.

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   Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2004).

Abstract

   This document registers the MIME sub-type application/sbml+xml, a
   media type for SBML, the Systems Biology Markup Language.  SBML is
   defined by The SBML Team at the California Institute of Technology
   and interested members of the systems biology community.

1.  Introduction

   SBML is an XML format for representing and exchanging models of
   biochemical reaction networks used in systems biology.  SBML:

   o  enables researchers in systems biology to use multiple tools, such
      as simulators, editors, differential-equation solvers, and
      visualizers, on a single model without rewriting the model for
      each tool;

   o  enables researchers and publishers to make models available on-
      line to other researchers even if they use a different software
      environment;

   o  enables models, and the intellectual effort put into them, to
      survive beyond the lifetime of the software tools used to create
      them.

   Currently, about 60 software applications use SBML, and researchers
   are using these applications to develop quantitative and qualitative
   computational models, mostly in cell biology.  In addition, several
   consortia and alliances have standardized SBML as their model





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