BioPAX : Biological Pathways Exchange
      

 







News Archive

October 11, 2005 - BioPAX listed in the KnowledgeZone

August 22, 2005 - The release candidate 2 for Level 2 was posted. Level 2 expands BioPAX to cover molecular interaction data.

August 5, 2005 - The release candidate for Level 2 was posted. Level 2 expands BioPAX to cover molecular interaction data.

June 25, 2005 - A BioPAX face-to-face meeting was held in Detroit at the ISMB 2005 conference. Notes from the meeting have been posted on the BioPAX Wiki.

June 24, 2005 - The BioPAX Wiki, a collection of user-editable web pages on various aspects of the BioPAX project, is now available.

April 27, 2005 - Level 1, version 1.4 released. Adds ID-VERSION slot to xref class and makes DIRECTION slot optional in catalysis class. Backward compatible with all with Level 1, version 1.2.

April 13, 2005 - Level 2, version 0.9 (the beta version of Level 2) was posted. Level 2 expands BioPAX to cover molecular interaction data.

March 2, 2005 - A BioPAX interest group is forming in Boston, MA. The group, BioPAX-Boston, is open to all and will meet monthly to discuss BioPAX development and implementation issues.

January 21, 2005 - A BioPAX face-to-face meeting was held in New York City at Memorial Sloan-Kettering. Meeting notes and presentation slides have been posted here.

3/2/05 - A BioPAX interest group is forming in Boston, MA. The group, BioPAX-Boston, is open to all and will meet monthly to discuss BioPAX development and implementation issues.

1/21/05 - A BioPAX face-to-face meeting was held in New York City at Memorial Sloan-Kettering. Meeting notes and presentation slides have been posted here.

11/19/04 - Level 1, version 1.2 released. Adds additional support for description logic reasoning. Backward compatible with Level 1, version 1.0.

11/11/04 - Kitty ter Stege, Thomas Kelder, and Gijs Huisman from the Technial University of Eindhoven contributed this tutorial on how to create a BioPAX pathway with the Jena API.

8/24/04 - The BioPAX poster and presentations from ISMB-04 are now available on the Documents page.

8/2/04 - A BOF session on BioPAX and the creation of a shared pathway data resource was held at ISMB-04.

7/7/04 - The Pathway Resource List (PRL), a catalog of pathway data resources, is now available online.

7/7/04 - Level 1, version 1 of BioPAX was made available in OWL format. This is the first production release of BioPAX.

2/10/04 - RDF and OWL are now official W3C language recommendations. BioPAX is mentioned on the OWL implementation page.

2/5/04 - Level 1, version 0.5.2 was released. This version of the initial draft release is compatible with Protege 2.0.

12/8/03 - A BioPAX meeting was held in Denver, Colorado. At this meeting we finalized the scope and composition of BioPAX Level 1, and outlined the features of BioPAX Level 2 and beyond.

10/3/03 - A BioPAX meeting was held at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, New York. At this meeting we resolved several open ontology issues.

9/24/03 - Level 1, version 0.5 was released. This was a draft release, intended to provide a preview of the BioPAX data exchange format in order to generate discussion and feedback from the biopathway community.

6/30/03 - A report on the progress of the BioPAX group was presented at ISMB-03 in Brisbane, Australia. Two Birds-of-a-Feather meetings were subsequently held, in which biopathway and bioontology community members discussed various aspects of the project, such as use cases and the formation of new subgroups.

5/23/03 - The fourth BioPAX meeting was held at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, New York. By the end of the meeting, a class hierarchy for the Level 1 BioPAX ontology had been agreed upon.