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We are pleased to announce the fourth release of BioModels Database.

It sees the addition of 6 models that represent 220 reactions, the
biggest increase since the creation of the resource. Most importantly,
this release introduces the qualification of annotations, following
the recommendation of the MIRIAM standard. Those qualifications are
exported in the SBML version using the Finney/Le Novere framework.

A complete release announcement is available at:

http://www.ebi.ac.uk/biomodels/release_31Jan2006.html

Acknowledgements
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BioModels Database is developed in collaboration by the teams of
Nicolas Le Novere (EMBL-EBI, United-Kingdom), Michael Hucka (SBML
Team, Caltech, USA), Herbert Sauro (Keck Graduate Institute, USA) and
Jacky Snoep (JWS Online, Stellenbosch University, ZA), as part of the
BioModels.net initiative. BioModels Database development is funded by
the European Molecular Biology Laboratory and the National Institute
of General Medical Sciences.

Developers
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Chen Li, Lu Li, Melanie Courtot, Marco Donizelli.

Model curators and annotators
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Nicolas Le Novere, Harish Dharuri, Lu Li.

External contributors
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Upinder Bhalla, Christoph Flamm, Ryan Gutenkunst, Adam Halasz, Ken
Lau, Rainer Machne, Marc Poolman, Tomas Radivoyevitch, Birgit
Schoeberl, Bruce Shapiro, Oleg Sokolsy, Molecular Systems Biology
(models), Ben Bornstein, Sarah Keating, Joanne Matthews, Nicolas
Rodriguez, Maria Schilstra (software), Samuel Bandara, Alexander
Broicher, Les Grivell, Noriko Hiroi, Boris Kholodenko, Ursula Kummer,
Adrian Lopez Garcia de Lomana, Yukiko Matsuoka , Robert Phair, Tjeerd
olde Scheper, Henning Schmidt, Paul Smolen (Miscellaneous).

We are also grateful to the authors of the great software used to
curate the models: CellDesigner, COPASI, Jarnac and SBMLodeSolver, and
to the free software community for Jakarta Tomcat, Xindice, Xalan,
Xerces and MySQL.


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Nicolas LE NOVÈRE, Computational Neurobiology,
EMBL-EBI, Wellcome-Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SD, UK
Tel: +44(0)1223 494 521, Fax: +44(0)1223 494 468, Mob: +33(0)689218676
http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~lenov