What is the purpose of the non-curated branch of BioModels Database?
The success and rapid growth of BioModels databases has led to a couple of issues, both of which are handled using the non-curated branch of BioModels Database. Firstly, BioModels Database faces an ever-growing, and increasingly complex, number of model submissions which are growing at a pace that exceeds our curation capacity. Secondly, many of the models submitted, while syntactically correct, cannot be curated for various reasons. Hence, the non-curated branch of BioModels Database is a public holding area for models that have yet to be curated, or are not curatable for various reasons. The models held in the non-curated branch are of four types: • Models that are perfectly fine, but have yet to be curated • Models that are not curatable, since they are not MIRIAM-compliant • Models that are not currently curatable, since they are not kinetic models (e.g. Flux Balance Analysis models) • Models for which SBML supports only part of the description, most of it being in annotation (e.g.
