What is MIRIAM?
MIRIAM is the Minimum Information Required in the Annotation of Models [Press Release][article in Nature Biotechnology]. Initiated by the BioModels.net project, it is a set of rules defining how a model should be encoded and annotated in order to be successfully distributed and exchanged. All models stored in BioModels Database are MIRIAM-compliant. In particular MIRIAM requires that a model provides all the information necessary to generate a simulation, such as the initial conditions. In addition, the reaction graph generated from this simulation must reproduce the results of the original publication, in which the model was first described. The MIRIAM standard requires that all model components contain sufficient controlled annotation such that each component can be unambiguously identified. MIRIAM Resources is a set of services have been developed specifically to aid in the generation and resolution these controlled annotations.
