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Systems Biology Graphical Notation: Process Description language Level 1 Version 2.0

  • Adrien Rougny ORCID logo EMAIL logo , Vasundra Touré ORCID logo , Stuart Moodie , Irina Balaur ORCID logo , Tobias Czauderna ORCID logo , Hanna Borlinghaus ORCID logo , Ugur Dogrusoz ORCID logo , Alexander Mazein ORCID logo , Andreas Dräger ORCID logo , Michael L. Blinov ORCID logo , Alice Villéger , Robin Haw ORCID logo , Emek Demir , Huaiyu Mi ORCID logo , Anatoly Sorokin ORCID logo , Falk Schreiber and Augustin Luna ORCID logo

Abstract

The Systems Biology Graphical Notation (SBGN) is an international community effort that aims to standardise the visualisation of pathways and networks for readers with diverse scientific backgrounds as well as to support an efficient and accurate exchange of biological knowledge between disparate research communities, industry, and other players in systems biology. SBGN comprises the three languages Entity Relationship, Activity Flow, and Process Description (PD) to cover biological and biochemical systems at distinct levels of detail. PD is closest to metabolic and regulatory pathways found in biological literature and textbooks. Its well-defined semantics offer a superior precision in expressing biological knowledge. PD represents mechanistic and temporal dependencies of biological interactions and transformations as a graph. Its different types of nodes include entity pools (e.g. metabolites, proteins, genes and complexes) and processes (e.g. reactions, associations and influences). The edges describe relationships between the nodes (e.g. consumption, production, stimulation and inhibition). This document details Level 1 Version 2.0 of the PD specification, including several improvements, in particular: 1) the addition of the equivalence operator, subunit, and annotation glyphs, 2) modification to the usage of submaps, and 3) updates to clarify the use of various glyphs (i.e. multimer, empty set, and state variable).

Received: 2019-03-31
Revised: 2019-05-01
Accepted: 2019-05-21
Published Online: 2019-06-13

© 2019, Adrien Rougny et al., published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston

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