/openbel-platform

OpenBEL Platform

OpenBEL Platform

The OpenBEL Platform enables the building of computable BEL networks from a collection of managed BEL evidence.

Table of Contents

What is provided?

  • API of BEL tools
  • Storage of BEL evidence
  • Expansion of BEL knowledge through reasoning
  • Build BEL networks from evidence

Projects

  • libbel

    • Low-level parser for BEL expressions and BEL Script format.

  • bel.rb

    • Library to provide tools for working with BEL Evidence.

  • openbel-api

    • Web-based API that enables storage of BEL evidence and construction of BEL networks.

Roadmap

1.0.0, Milestone 1

  • Evidence store
  • API to access annotations/namespaces
  • API for completion of BEL expressions
  • Standardization and expansion of BEL evidence
  • Store and retrieve datasets of BEL Evidence (e.g. BEL Script documents)

1.0.0, Milestone 2

  • Biological Expression Language, version 2.x support
  • Knowledge graph reasoning (e.g. Gene activation pathways)
  • Creation of BEL networks