BioUML development roadmap

This page describes the current plans for BioUML platform development in 2013 and includes a list of desired features that are not scheduled yet. Users, administrators and developers are welcome with their comments and suggestions about new features as well as feature implementation priorities. For this purpose, please, use the BioUML forum.

Plans for 2013

Release	Description	Date
v. 0.9.5	SBML level 3 packages: hierarchic FBC test suite	2013, Q2
v. 0.9.6	Modelling Rule based modelling (implementation of BioNetGen approach) Antimony support Synchronisation between textual and graphical model representation (BioNetGen, Antimony) New methods for analysis transcription factor binding sites	2013, June
v. 0.9.7	Server installation repository - packages for Red Hat and Debian Puppet cookbooks for server updates Server grid version - pilot task manager integration with SGE via DRMAA virtualisation Web interface mobile version (for web-browser) web interface improvements diagrams - convenient for exchange and editing NGS ribo-seq miRNA rna-seq Integration with genAbel - pilot	2013, Q3
v. 0.9.8	Server grid version (alpha) Further NGS analyses improvements Integration with genAbel (beta) SBGN-XML support	2013, Q3
v. 0.9.9	Server grid version (beta) Further NGS analyses improvements	2013, Q4

Other desired features

Component	Features	Priority
Core	Major refactoring: complex, macromolecule state, reaction	moderate
	Parameters fitting - optimization process as a workflow - SED-ML as workflow - save optimization results as the diagram state	moderate
	Implementation of OQL subset for access to databases via BioUML object model	moderate
Databases	KEGG improvements: - omics data visualisation - graph search engine improvements (not include small molecules, search for related maps) - organism - filter and highlighter - visualization of chemical structure for substances - diagram editing - diagram export (KGML, BioPAX, SBML, +SVG, +PNG, +JPEG) - set up wizard	low
Misc.	SBRML support	low
	Further integration with Matlab	low

See also

• BioUML
• Features
• BioUML development history