biomodels

is a Data Source.

BioModels is EMBL-EBI's repository of mathematical models of biological and biomedical systems. It holds manually curated models, which are checked to reproduce the results of their reference publication and annotated with cross-references to ontologies and databases such as GO, ChEBI, UniProt and Reactome, alongside non-curated submitted models and models generated automatically from pathway resources. Models are mainly encoded in SBML and distributed as COMBINE archives (OMEX). The models and their annotations are dedicated to the public domain under CC0.

License

CC0 1.0

Homepage

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From this Resource
ID Name URL Category Format Description
biomodels.portal BioModels Web Portal biomodels Graphical Interface http Web interface for searching, browsing...
biomodels.api BioModels REST API docs Programming Interface http REST web services for searching BioMo...
biomodels.release.sbml ⚠ BioModels Database Release 31 SBML Files BioModels_Database-r31_pub-sbml_files.tar.bz2 (183.7 MB) Product sbml Last numbered BioModels Database rele...
biomodels.rdf BioModels RDF Export BioModels-RDF-export-latest.tar.bz2 (28.3 MB) Product rdfxml RDF export of BioModels models, one R...
biomodels.user-guide BioModels User Guide user-guide Documentation http BioModels user guide covering model s...
biomodels.code BioModels Source Code EBI-BioModels Process mixed Source code for the BioModels platfor...
biomodels.kg-bioportal BIOMODELS KGX graph (KG-Bioportal) BIOMODELS.tar.gz (12.8 MB) Graph kgx KGX TSV transform of BioModels Ontolo...
From other Resources
ID Name URL Category Format Relation Description
omicsdi.portal OmicsDI Portal www.omicsdi.org Graphical Interface http had primary source Web portal for searching and browsing...
omicsdi.api OmicsDI API index.html Programming Interface http had primary source Swagger-documented web service for pr...

Details

BioModels

BioModels is a repository of mathematical models of biological processes, run by EMBL-EBI. It has three main kinds of model:

  • Manually curated models, which are checked to reproduce the results in their reference publication and are annotated with cross-references to ontologies and databases such as GO, ChEBI, UniProt and Reactome.
  • Non-curated models, deposited by submitters and released without that check.
  • Automatically generated models, built from pathway resources.

Models are mainly encoded in SBML, often with simulation descriptions in SED-ML, and are distributed as COMBINE archives (OMEX).

Access

Models can be searched and downloaded through the web portal and the REST API. The FTP site holds the last numbered BioModels Database release (release 31, June 2017), an RDF export of the models from 2020, and other archives. Models added after 2017 are only available through the portal and the API.

License

The terms of use dedicate the BioModels dataset, including the encoded models and their annotations, to the public domain under CC0.

BioModels is also indexed by OmicsDI.

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Created: October 04, 2026 | Last modified: October 05, 2026