PBK model definitions data formats

PBK models can also be uploaded to the data repository in the Systems Biology Markup Language (SBML) file format (with extension .sbml). Currently only level 3 version 2 is supported.

SBML has three main purposes:

• enable the use of multiple software tools without having to rewrite models to conform to every tool’s idiosyncratic file format;

• enable models to be shared and published in a form that other researchers can use even when working with different software environments;

• ensure the survival of models beyond the lifetime of the software used to create them.