##Deviser
Fork Author: Hovakim Grabski
Fork Repository: https://github.com/hovo1990/deviser
Computation modeling has become a crucial aspect of biological research, and SBML (the Systems Biology Markup Language) has become the de facto standard open format for exchanging models between software tools in systems biology.
Since SBML Level 3 is being developed as a modular format with optional SBML Level 3 packages are available to extend the focus of the core SBML representation. Deviser is a new code generation system developed to facilitate the development of SBML L3 packages by helping to automate the generation of specifications, UML diagrams and library code.
The current fork extends Deviser's code generator to produce Java code that can be integrated into JSBML, the pure Java API library for SBML. This allows Deviser to target both libSBML and JSBML.At the current it generates the foundation of the packages, which facilitates the implementation of the packages. The work was done for Google Summer of Code 2016.
There is command line version of the function that can be used to invoke the deviser functionality for generating Java/JSBML code from the XML file. This is the deviser.py file found in the generator directory.
deviser.py [--generatejsbml][--latex] input-file.xml
Deviser requires javap for the java code generation at the current phase. Javap is available with the JDK and the following is required for Devisers' java code functionality.
Java JDK is required for javap
Also set up JAVA_HOME environment variable for your operating system, if you are working under Windows, here is a good tutorial on how to set up. And for Linux: Ubuntu/Debian.
At the current state Deviser generates compilable templates, which serve as a foundation and facilitates the implementation of the following packages :
- Qualitative Models package (qual, for short) allows species in a model to have non-quantitative or non-continuous levels. (Chaouiya et al., 2013)
- Groups (groups, Hucka and Smith, 2013) agglomerates SBML model elements and can be linked to annotations and SBO terms (Courtot et al., 2011) to contextualize sets of objects for other programmers and modelers.
- Distributions (distrib, Moodie and Smith, 2013) encodes statistical distributions and their sampling.
- Dynamic Structures (dyn, Gomez et al., 2014), which supports the definition of dynamical behaviors for model entities.
Specific parts of the packages are left to be implemented.
- Flux Balance Constraints (fbc, Olivier and Bergmann, 2013) encodes components for constraints based modeling (Lewis et al., 2012), which employs a class of models in which the canonical stoichiometric relations between reactions and metabolites are specified as constraints for mathematical optimization.
- Spatial Processes (spatial, Schaff et al., 2014) specifies geometric descriptions of biochemical models’ components using a cellular coordinate system that can describe non-uniform molecular distributions, diffusive transport and spatially localized reactions.
I would also like to optimize imports part, as well as find an alternative to javap, which is used extensively, so deviser does not have any dependency for Java/JSBML code generation.
For running Java code generation tests, please head to generator/tests/test_java_code and run
run_java_tests.py
If there are any errors, it will also show the code differences.
I am very grateful to my mentors Dr. Bergmann, Dr. Keating, Dr. Dräger and Dr. Rodriguez for the invaluable help and patience.
Deviser stands for "Design Explorer and Viewer for Iterative SBML Enhancement of Representations".
Authors: Sarah Keating, and Frank Bergmann with contributions from Mike Hucka.
License: This code is licensed under the LGPL version 2.1. Please see the file LICENSE.txt for details.
Repository: https://github.com/sbmlteam/deviser
Pivotal tracker: https://www.pivotaltracker.com/n/projects/977192
Computation modeling has become a crucial aspect of biological research, and SBML (the Systems Biology Markup Language) has become the de facto standard open format for exchanging models between software tools in systems biology.
LibSBML is a free, open-source programming library to help you read, write, manipulate, translate, and validate SBML files and data streams. Support for SBML Level 3 packages can be added by integrating the package specific code and building with the package enabled.
SBML Level 3 is being developed as a core with additional optional packages. Deviser facilitates the development of these packages by providing a means of creating a basic specification, UML diagrams and code for integration with libSBML.
Deviser is written in Python and is compatible with Python version 2.6 onwards.
The Deviser Edit tool allows you to quickly define an SBML L3 package. It then provides the following functionality
- Create and view a UML diagram.
- Generate the necessary libSBML code for the package.
- Generate TeX files and generate a pdf of a basic specification document for the package.
- Integrate and test the package with libSBML.
The Deviser Edit tool creates an XML description of the package that is used by the deviser code to generate the requested files. This XML description is exemplified in the samples directory.
There is command line version of the function that can be used to invoke the deviser functionality on the XML file. This is the deviser.py file found in the generator directory.
deviser.py [--generate][--latex] input-file.xml
This program will use a Deviser xml file, and generate either a C++ libSBML extension for it, or generate a LaTeX scaffold for its specification.
Full documentation is available in the docs directory.
The deviser release includes a windows installation executable. When installed this provides the user with the Deviser Edit tool (CsDeviser.exe) and additionally includes a python interpreter and the sbmlpkgspec files for generating SBML L3 Package specifications.
The deviser release includes a tarball suitable for Linux. This includes the Deviser Edit tool which can be used is mono is installed.
#####Mac OS X
The Deviser Edit tool does not (yet) work on Mac OS X systems. However the command line version can be used. Thus downloading the release src code will provide this functionality.
Not all of the following are necessary as what is necessary depends on which operating system is being used and which Deviser functionality is required. These links are given as a quick reference.
libSBML dependency libraries for Windows users
SBML package specification template files
Mono install scripts for Linux
We achnowledge funding for Deviser from the National Institutes of Health (USA) under grant R01 GM070923.
Copyright (C) 2014-2015 jointly by the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA, EMBL European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Hinxton, UK and the University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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