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I'm not sure if I agree with Rob here, I've not seen many compartmental
models in the true sense, I don't think many people even know how to
represent compartmental models propoerly.

Herbert

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Hucka [mailto:mhucka@caltech.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 3:04 AM
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Subject: RE: [sbml-discuss] parameters and namespaces

rphair> From my perspective, nearly every model I work
rphair> with and every model I review on study sections or
rphair> for journals contains multiple compartments so I
rphair> think it's no longer true that "most models still
rphair> seem to involve one compartment of unit volume
rphair> anyway."

Well, ok, I made an overstatement. I guess I got too used to seeing a
lot of test models, but you're right that many people using many of
today's tools are using multiple compartments in real work. Thanks for
pointing it out. I stand corrected.

rphair> Moreover, I agree with Kouichi that it would often
rphair> be valuable to place compartments in some
rphair> hierarchical relationship to one another. We plan
rphair> to support this sort of arrangement in ProcessDB
rphair> so perhaps, Mike, you can call upon those of us
rphair> who have expressed interest in this concept to
rphair> follow Level 3 developments with this in mind.

Well, again, I suspect model composition will address this in a general
way. But if it doesn't, then yes, please do bring it up.

MH