SBGN-ED - a tool for editing, validating, and translating of SBGN maps

The recently proposed Systems Biology Graphical Notation (SBGN) provides a standard for the visual representation of biochemical and cellular processes. SBGN helps to communicate biological knowledge more efficient and accurate between different research communities in the life sciences. However, to support SBGN, methods and tools for editing, validating, and translating of SBGN maps are necessary.

We present methods for these tasks, the tool SBGN-ED, and an application example. SBGN-ED allows to create all three types of SBGN maps from scratch, to validate these maps for syntactical and semantical correctness, to translate maps from the KEGG and MetaCrop databases into SBGN, and to export SBGN maps into several file and image formats.
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