BioModels is a free and open-source repository for storing, exchanging and retrieving quantitative models of biological interest created in 2006.[1][2][3] All the models in the curated section of BioModels Database have been described in peer-reviewed scientific literature.
The models stored in BioModels' curated branch are compliant with MIRIAM, the standard of model curation and annotation. The models have been simulated by curators to check that when run in simulations, they provide the same results as described in the publication. Model components are annotated, so the users can conveniently identify each model element and retrieve further information from other resources.
BioModels is composed of several branches. The curated branch hosts models that are well curated and annotated. The non-curated-branch provides models that are still not curated, are non-curatable (spatial models, steady-state models etc.), or too huge to be curated. Non-curated models can be later moved into the curated branch. The repository also hosts models which were automatically generated from pathways databases.
BioModels announced its 31st release on June 26, 2017.[5] It now publicly provides 144,710 models. This corresponds to 1,640 models published in the literature and 143,070 models automatically generated from pathway resources.
BioModels is developed by the BioModels.net Team at the EMBL-EBI, UK, the Le Novère lab at the Babraham Institute, UK, and the SBML Team in Caltech, USA.[6]
^Le Novère N., Bornstein B., Broicher A., Courtot M., Donizelli M., Dharuri H., Li L., Sauro H., Schilstra M., Shapiro B., Snoep J.L., Hucka M. BioModels Database: A Free, Centralized Database of Curated, Published, Quantitative Kinetic Models of Biochemical and Cellular Systems. Nucleic Acids Research (2006), 34: D689-D691.
^Chelliah V., Juty N., Ajmera I., Raza A., Dumousseau M., Glont M., Hucka M., Jalowicki G., Keating S., Knight-Schrijver V., Lloret-Villas A., Natarajan K., Pettit J.-B., Rodriguez N., Schubert M., Wimalaratne S., Zhou Y., Hermjakob H., Le Novère N., Laibe C. BioModels: ten year anniversary. Nucleic Acids Research (2015) 43 (D1): D542-D548
^Li C., Courtot M., Le Novère N. and Laibe C (2009) BioModels.net Web Services, a free and integrated toolkit for computational modelling software, Briefings in Bioinformatics, doi:10.1093/bib/bbp056
