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The mission of SBGN project is to develop high quality, standard graphical languages for representing biological processes and interactions. Each SBGN language is based on the consensus of the broad international SBGN community of biologists, curators and software developers.
Over the course of its development many individuals, organizations and companies made invaluable contributions to the SBGN through participating in discussions and meetings, providing feedback on the documentation and worked examples, adopting the standard and spreading the word. A full list can be found here[we can put authors + companies here].
Regardless of your experience or involvement level, we value your ideas and feedback.
For reporting issues, suggesting enhancements or requesting features please use the dedicated trackers on SourceForge.net.
For general discussions about SBGN: please join the sbgn-discuss mailing list (see the SBGN Mailing Lists page) and bring up the topic there.
For specific questions about this website, workshops, or other SBGN resource management topics: please send a message to the sbgn-editors mailing list (see the SBGN Mailing Lists page).
SBGN meetings and workshops provide the best environment for learning about the process and getting involved. Please check the Events page for the upcoming events.
The SBGN Editors work towards distilling discussions and requests into coherent specification documents, addressing comments and questions, correcting errata, and generally managing revisions to the SBGN specifications. The editors do not decide what to put in the specifications—they are the voice and the hand of the community.
The SBGN editors are elected by the community for 3-year terms as volunteers. There is no limit on the number of terms one can serve as an editor. An serving editor, however, cannot stand for election thereby forcing a gap year between two successive terms.
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| Emek Demir (elected in 2009) (Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, M.S. in Molecular Biology and Genetics) has been working on representing and visualizing cellular processes for the last decade. He is currently an editor of BioPAX and works on the Pathway Commons project at MSKCC. He is involved in development of various software tools including Paxtools, ChiBE, Patika. He is interested in causality analysis using pathway databases and high throughput data. | Nicolas Le Novère (elected in 2009) (Ph.D. in Molecular Pharmacology) leads the Computational Neurobiology group at the European Bioinformatics Institute. His interests include neural signal transduction and computational modeling of biological processes. His group maintains BioModels Database and SBO. He is also deeply involved in the development o SBML. | Huaiyu Mi (elected in 2009) (Ph.D. in Molecular and Cellular Physiology and MD in Medicine) is a senior researcher in the Artificial Intelligence Center at SRI International, USA. He is the scientific leader of the PANTHER Pathway System, a module of the PANTHER Classification System which he serves as the project manager. His interests include protein and pathway evolution and biological knowledge representation using ontology. |
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| Stuart Moodie (elected in 2009) | Falk Schreiber (elected in 2009) (Ph.D. in Computer Science) is professor for Bioinformatics at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and leads the Plant Bioinformatics group at the IPK Gatersleben. His interests include modelling, analysis, simulation and visualisation of biological networks, and methods for information visualisation, in particular network layout. His group develops databases and tools including MetaCrop and Vanted. |
Anatoly Sorokin acted as an editor from September 2008 to December 2009.
The duties of the SBGN Scientific committee are to help securing the financial support for SBGN development, to advocate the use of the language in their community, and to check that the development of SBGN is harmonious and democratic. The scientific committee does not have any decision-making power on the content of SBGN, although its advices presumably weight much in the decisions taken by the community.
Principal investigators of grants supporting SBGN development and maintenance are automatically invited to become members. Invitations for other memberships are offered by the running Scientific Committee and the Editorial Board. Individuals considered are pioneers or major players in the field of graphical representation of knowledge, or leading figures in fields that may endorse SBGN. The terms are yearly, renewable without restriction.
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| Igor Goryanin (joined in 2009) | Michael Hucka (joined in 2009) (Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering) is a Senior Research Fellow at Caltech. He has chaired the SBML effort by community consensus since 2003. Today he works on all aspects of SBML and is involved with BioModels.net activities. | Hiroaki Kitano (joined in 2009) |
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| Kurt Kohn (joined in 2009) | Nicolas Le Novère (joined in 2009) (Ph.D. in Molecular Pharmacology) leads the Computational Neurobiology group at the European Bioinformatics Institute. His interests include neural signal transduction and computational modeling of biological processes. His group maintains BioModels Database and SBO. He is also deeply involved in the development of SBML. |
We are deeply indebted to the many funding agencies and organizations that have supported SBGN over the years.
The development of SBGN during 2005–2008 was mainly supported by a grant from the Japanese New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO). The principal investigators were Hiroaki Kitano, Akira Funahashi, Nicolas Le Novère, and Michael Hucka.
The Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), the British Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) through a Japan Partnering Award, and a US Partnering Award, the European Media Laboratory (EML Research GmbH), and the Beckman Institute BNMC at the California Institute of Technology provided additional support for SBGN workshops.
No one—not the principal investigators, nor the SBGN Editors, nor the members of the SBGN Scientific Committee, nor the funding agencies or anyone else—owns SBGN; it is a free and open community effort that extends beyond any single group, and we view ourselves only as organizers and fellow developers.