ABI CellML Meeting Minutes, 24th November 2010

Present: Dougal Cowan, Mona Zhu, Amy You, Michael Backhaus, Andrew Miller, Randall Britten, David "Andre" Nickerson, Lukas Endler

This week's agenda:

0) Introductions - Lukas, Mona, Amy

Discussion:

  • Lukas and the new summer students Mona and Amy introduced themselves.

1) Repository contributions - update

Progress:

  • Dougal: have exposed 3 recently pushed models - Gerard et al. 2005, Garmendia-Torres et al. 2007, and Houart et al. 1999. Dougal will be creating exposures in the interim until a new system is in place.
  • Amy: has coded up the Swat 2004 model in CellML and pushed it to the repository.
  • Camille: has coded up and pushed Goldbeter et al. 2007 and Gérard C, Goldbeter A, 2009.
  • Mona: has coded up and pushed Houart et al. 1999, Garmendia-Torres et al. 2007, and Conradie et al. 2010.

2) PMR2 development - update

  • Tommy is on leave. No update.

3) CellML API - update

Progress:

  • Andrew: still working on TeLICeMS - the parser is essentiall complete. A test suite with a trivial example has been created, which converts from CellML to TeLICeMS. The other direction will need some more work, and then round-trip testing can be performed.

Discussion:

  • There was a discussion about API features: order preservation, comments, and the TeLICeMS service.

Action item 1: Randall to get in touch with Alan to discuss the TeLICeMS service and text input in OpenCell.

4) CellML API survey

Progress:

  • Dougal: has created a Google Forms survey which is basically complete, but still has a few problems. Needs assistance with the ethics approval process.

Discussion:

  • There was a discussion about the survey form. A breakaway was called to further discuss this.

5) CellML core specs - update

Progress:

  • Andrew: ModML - still working on the Rice 2008 model. To get it working, symbolic differentiation has to be performed.

Discussion:

  • There was a discussion about how ModML works.

6) Encyclopedia article (CellML language)

Progress:

  • Andrew: Poul is happy with the latest version sent by Andrew.
  • Randall: still have a few minor changes to send.

7) Time permitting: Updates or additional items from volunteering attendees