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ready Biological Expression Language

Abbreviation: BEL


General Information
BEL is a language for representing scientific findings in the life sciences in a reusable, shareable, and computable form. BEL is designed to represent scientific findings by capturing causal and correlative relationships in context, where context can include information about the biological and experimental system in which the relationships were observed, the supporting publications cited and the process of curation. BEL is intended as a knowledge capture and interchange medium, supporting the operation of systems that integrate knowledge derived from independent efforts. The language is designed to be use-neutral, facilitating the storage and use of structured knowledge for inference by applications through a knowledge assembly process that can create computable biological networks. While BEL does not prescribe any particular assembly process or any particular knowledge format for the output of an assembly process, a suite of software components called the BEL Framework provides everything necessary to create, compile, assemble, and deliver computable knowledge models to BEL-aware applications. The current version of BEL provides the means to describe biological interactions qualitatively but not to quantify the magnitude or rate of these interactions. This limitation is by design because this quantitative information has significant variability and is not consistently reported in the literature. It is our hope that future versions of BEL can accommodate these additional data.

Homepage https://bel.bio

Countries that developed this resource United States

Created in 2003

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How to cite this record FAIRsharing.org: BEL; Biological Expression Language; DOI: https://doi.org/10.25504/FAIRsharing.dp0jvd; Last edited: July 31, 2019, 10:50 a.m.; Last accessed: May 28 2020 10:13 p.m.


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H2020 Phenome and Metabolome aNalysis (PhenoMenal) Project


Support

General

support email BEL.bio Support mailbox
forum BEL Discussion Forum
online documentation BEL Language Documentation

Additional Information

Contact William Hayes   ORCID

Tools
BEL python library https://github.com/belbio/bel

Schemas
  • Name: openBEL
  • Version: 1.0
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Conditions of Use

Applies to: Data use Applies to: Database software

Data Release

BEL Resources http://resources.bel.bio



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Implementing Databases (1)
The Network Data Exchange (NDEx)
NDEx is an online commons where scientists can upload, share, and publicly distribute biological networks and pathway models. The NDEx Project maintains a web-accessible public server, a documentation website, provides seamless connectivity to Cytoscape as well as programmatic access using a variety of languages including Python and Java. NDEx users can easily create accounts or sign in using their Google credentials thanks to the supported open authentication (OAUTH2) method and mint DOIs for their networks to use in publications or include in other resources for long term access.

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