Teranode Announces Support for SBML Level 2
Teranode Corporation the leading provider of design automation software for the life sciences industry today announced support for SBML Level 2 in the company’s VLX Design Suite offering. Systems Biology Markup Language (SBML) is the standard for electronic data exchange of biochemical models in life sciences environments. The newest version of VLX Design Suite enables researchers to jump start model development by reusing Internet-accessible SBML models. Additionally, VLX Design Suite simplifies collaboration between scientists by allowing them to export and share biochemical models using SBML.
“Adoption of open industry standards such as XML and SBML will be essential elements in simplifying the much-needed collaboration between academics, research organizations, and corporations. SBML makes it easier and less costly to communicate complex biochemical systems which have been to-date locked in proprietary databases,” said John C. Doyle, Ph.D., professor in Control and Dynamical Systems and Electrical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology and a principal investigator for SBML. “The real benefit here is the acceleration of discovery and innovation, and SBML’s widespread adoption is a real multiplier. Unfortunately, federal funding is essential to open source efforts like this, but the obvious sources have been slow to recognize this.”
“The vision of SBML is becoming a reality through applications like VLX Design Suite,” said Zheng Li, Teranode Chief Science Officer. “Now researchers can easily reuse models from SBML.org or other repositories saving valuable time and effort in model development. These models can then be quickly enhanced through collaboration and experimentation and republished back to the research community.”
The VLX Design Suite serves as an important modeling application for extending the value of SBML models and simplifies SBML model development and collaboration through the following:
| Graphical visualization and editing | |
| Annotation | |
| Metadata editing and viewing | |
| Search | |
| Simulation | |
| Experimental data management |
VLX Design Suite V1.4 is available immediately for trial and purchase at www.teranode.com
About SBML
Systems Biology Markup Language (SBML) is a machine-readable format for describing representing models of biochemical reaction networks. SBML is applicable to metabolic networks, cell-signaling pathways, genomic regulatory networks, and many other areas in systems biology and can be used to express the interactions of biochemical networks with other phenomena.
About SBML.org
SBML.org, is an organization that guides SBML development and focuses on research and software development for Systems Biology. SBML.org is dedicated to building and organizing an open community effort to develop standards for interoperability between Systems Biology software.
About Teranode Corporation
Teranode Corporation, headquartered in Seattle, WA, delivers a design automation platform that unifies the planning, execution and evaluation of physical and in-silico processes. The company, founded in 2002 to revolutionize the role that computing plays in life sciences, began with technologies invented by the founders at the University of Washington.
The company has been backed during its formative stage by research partners including the University of Washington, Intel, the NSF and the NIH. It is an IBM Business Partner in the Life Sciences sector and an Oracle Advantage Partner. The company’s VLX Design Suite is being used by leading pharmaceutical, biotechnology, research and academic organizations including Pfizer, AstraZeneca, St. Jude’s Hospital, and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Visit the company’s web site at: www.teranode.com
