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?
• Terminology
• Architecture
• Projects
• Roadmap

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