Why doesn BioModels Database export models under MATLAB format?
BioModels Database developers are doing their best to provide a variety of export formats. BioModels Database is a public resource, part of the BioModels.net initiative, and is totally committed to support open standard formats. Therefore, our first priority is the support of free (non-proprietary) software. In addition, BioModels Database is entirely funded by taxpayers’ money, and we feel it inappropriate to develop software to interface with commercial tools as a priority. That said, if you are a user of MATLAB and want to use BioModels Database models with this software, there exist several packages offering SBML support for MATLAB. See the SBML Toolbox, the Systems Biology Toolbox, and simbiology, the toolbox developed by MathWorks.
