Update Biological Expression Language topic URL#1897
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the old openbel.org website has now been co-opted by a company that's advertizing their services, so there's a new purely community-driven site to replace it
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Thanks for the contribution, @cthoyt! For my context (as a non-scientist 😄), what is the relationship between these two projects? Is https://bel.bio/ deprecated in favor of https://biological-expression-language.github.io/ within the BEL community? Thanks in advance! |
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The biological expression language was created by Selventa, Inc. and made public through their GitHub repository https://github.com/openbel. They also sponsored the community OpenBEL organization and website https://openbel.org. Since Selventa dissolved in 2016, the community has had a re-emergence, but one of the ex-Selventa employees recently used their access to the domain registration to redirect the community page to their company's page (which is https://bel.bio). The https://github.com/openbel organization also used to be maintained by the community, but the same person also recently removed access from the other community members. The https://biological-expression-language.github.io/ is a neutral, more inclusive site that will support the community and not just a single business, which could also go defunct like Selventa |
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Thanks for the explanation @cthoyt! |
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