Standards and Models for Biological Data: SBML

Abstract

In this article is presented the Systems Biology Markup Language (SBML), an open-source XML-based format to represent biological systems. SBML is a computer-readable XML-based language for representing and exchanging models common in many areas of biological systems, comprising cell signaling pathways, metabolic pathways, gene regulation, and others. The adoption of SBML to store, exchange, and share data, would help to solve the problems of interoperability. In this way, users would be better capable of spending more time on research task rather than on struggling with data format issues.