Could BioModels Database accept models encoded using my own software-specific format?
Currently, BioModels Database can only cover a subset of the modeling formats landscape. While there have been requests to increase the number of model formats that are accepted in BioModels Database, the underlying strategy of BioModels Database is to accept and distribute models in semantically rich but standard formats. This is to improve model accessibility, sharing and distribution for the larger community. Since BioModels Database curators simulate models in various software, in order to verify the reproducibility of results, a format common to the simulation software is required. For these reasons, only models models encoded using SBML and CellML are currently accepted. However, these languages do provide mechanisms to add significant information and metadata as proprietary annotations. If several software tools (for instance other spatial simulators, such as MCell, MesoRd, SmartCell, Smoldyn etc.) began using a common format, the Systems Biology community could leverage upon th
