From owner-metabolic-reg@net.bio.net Fri Sep 10 06:22:00 1999 Path: biosci!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!dispose.news.demon.net!demon!news.demon.co.uk!demon!fssc.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Herbert M Sauro" Newsgroups: bionet.metabolic-reg Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: Portable Metabolic Binary Standard Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 22:07:54 +0100 Message-ID: <936947725.17873.0.nnrp-04.c2de3927@news.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: fssc.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: fssc.demon.co.uk:194.222.57.39 X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 936947725 nnrp-04:17873 NO-IDENT fssc.demon.co.uk:194.222.57.39 X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Lines: 23 Portable Metabolic Binary Standard (pmb files) This message is to announce the availability of a new portable metabolic binary format (pmb files). For the moment this is likely only to be of interest to software developers of cell/metabolic simulation software. The hope is that by making such a specification available, users of different simulation packages will be able to exchange both data and models. Specifically we hope that software developers will add pmb export and import facilities to their packages. Since the pmb format is a binary format it is not readable by humans, however a fully structured metabolic language is being considered along side pmb and details will be posted in a later announcement. A free set of utilities (including viewers and converters), documentation and source code is available at: http://members.tripod.co.uk/sauro/biotech.htm under the utilities page. MMFF List Committee .