Community
As of December, 2010, more than 200 software systems advertise support for SBML. A current list is available in the form of the SBML Software Guide, hosted at sbml.org.
SBML has been and continues to be developed by the community of people making software platforms for systems biology, through active email discussion lists and biannual workshops. The meetings are often held in conjunction with other biology conferences, especially the International Conference on Systems Biology (ICSB). The community effort is coordinated by an elected editorial board made up of five members. Each editor is elected for a 3-year non-renewable term.
Tools such as an on-line model validator as well as open-source libraries for incorporating SBML into software programmed in the C, C++, Java, Python, Mathematica, MATLAB and other languages are developed partly by the SBML Team and partly by the broader SBML community.
SBML is an official IETF MIME type, specified by RFC 3823.
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