Caltech Scientists Help Launch the First Standard Graphical Notation for Biology

Researchers in Caltech’s Biological Networking Modeling Center (BNMC) and their collaborators have released the first standard graphical notation for biology. The new standard, called the Systems Biology Graphical Notation (SBGN), was published in the August 8 issue of the journal Nature Biotechnology.  BNMC was founded to encourage closer interactions between the Division of Biology, Control & Dynamical Systems, and CACR.

Read more in the Caltech Press Release

Biological Network Modeling Center

A seedling effort called the Biological Network Modeling Center has been recently funded at the Beckman Institute. The BNMC is intended to increase interactions between Biology, Control and Dynamical Systems, and CACR with the goal of advancing methods for the modeling of molecular networks. The BNMC brings together researchers from many disciplines at Caltech to address problems in the mechanistic modeling of coupled genomic, intercellular and intracellular processes. More information on the center and the collaboration can be found at the BNMC website.