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#1: Component reuse

Contents
  1. Motivation
  2. Proposal
Need the ability to reuse components in multiple models.
Proposed by
Poul Nielsen
Seconded by
Peter Hunter
Proposal type
Infrastructure
Assigned to release
State
completed

Motivation

CellML 1.0 provides a very useful language for the description of mathematical models. With CellML 1.0 the basic concept is that each component describes some useful portion of the mathematical model. Within the realm of computational biology, it is very common to take existing models and enhance them in some fashion or alter some aspect of the model in some manner. There are also many "standard" equations which are frequently used.

Thus, it would be most beneficial to be able to reuse components from one model in another model. Such as taking an existing model and adding a new component representing some newly found physiological mechanism - without needing to do the current copy-and-paste approach which is possible with CellML 1.0.

Proposal

Add model imports.