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Minimum information required in the annotation of models

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Source revisionNov 22, 2025
Entity authorityQ3315070 ↗
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MIRIAM (Minimum Information Required In The Annotation of Models) is a community-level effort to standardize the annotation and curation processes of quantitative models of biological systems. It consists of a set of guidelines suitable for use with any structured format, allowing different groups to collaborate and share resulting models. Adherence to these guidelines also facilitates the sharing of software and service infrastructures built upon modeling activities.

The idea of "a set of good practices" including "some obligatory metadata" was first proposed by Nicolas Le Novère in October 2004 as part of a discussion to develop a common database of models in systems biology (which led to the creation of BioModels Database). These initial ideas were further refined at a meeting in Heidelberg, during ICSB 2004, with representatives from many other interested groups.

MIRIAM is a registered project of the MIBBI (minimum information for biological and biomedical investigations).

MIRIAM Guidelines

The MIRIAM Guidelines are composed of three parts, reference correspondence, attribution annotation, and external resource annotation, each of which deals with a different aspect of information that should be included within a model.

Reference correspondence

'Reference correspondence' deals with the basic reference information needed to make use of the model, detailing on a gross level the format of the model file, and its instantiability for simulation purposes.

The model file must be encoded in a public, standardized, machine-readable format (SBML, CellML, GENESIS, ...).

The model file must be valid with respect to its encoding schema.

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