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-----Original Message-----
From: Nicolas Le Novère [mailto:lenov@ebi.ac.uk]
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 1:43 PM
To: SBML Discussion List
Subject: RE: [sbml-discuss] Proposal: simple mechanism for referencing rate laws

> The problem I have with local parameters is that in scripting
> languages such as matlab or jarnac (even jdesigner for that
> matter) one has to prefix the names with the reaction name since these
> languages don't have the concept of local rate constants.

>Fine. This is a tool problem, not an SBML one.

You're right, but it is a real pain. Hence the move to global parameters, it eliminates the problem altogether. Don't know why I didn't do it before.

>Hold-on. There is no rule in SBML that says you have to conserve IDs.
>Therefore, you can rewrite all the parameter ids from scratch each time.
>That solve the problem of incremental increase of the size.

Some of us get models from different sources other than SBML, yes there are other ways to represent models, and I don't see why SBML has be be dealt with as a special case.

Herbert


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