2DIs: A SBML Compliant Web Platform for the Design and Modeling of Immune System Interactions

We present 2DIs, a web platform that allows the easy design of extracellular models of the immune system function, including the possibility to describe the most important immune system entities and interactions and to produce a validated SBML file of the model. 2DIs permits immunologists to directly describe and share their knowledge with other colleagues and, more importantly, with modelers that can therefore obtain an SBML-compliant modelling template of the immunological process that can be used to develop the computational model. This could introduce a novel way of communicating among immunologists and modelers, reducing the risk of errors and misinterpretations.

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