Dear colleagues,

New version of BioUML workbench have been released.

Main achievement of this version is that both simulation engines
(Java and MATLAB) provided by BioUML workbench v. 0.7.5 passed 100%
SBML semantic test suite. Test details available at:
http://www.biouml.org/sbml_tests/overview.html

This is a brief overview of main features that we introduced in this
version:

1. Simulation engine improvements
- Discontinuity (MathML piecewise) support
- Delay support
- Algebraic rules support
- Support of all MathML functions (factorial, sh, tgh, ctgh, ash,
atgh, etc.)

2. SBML semantic suite now is part of BDK (BioUML Development Kit).
Special package biouml.plugins.sbml._test contains Java code to start
SBML semantic tests and display results nicely.
Test details

3. Improved SBML support
- level 1 version 1 - read/write
- level 1 version 2 - read/write
- level 2 version 1 - read/write
- import SBML models as diagrams into other BioUML modules

4. Import - models in following formats now can be imported as
diagrams into other SBML modules:
- SBML
- CellML
- GINML (format used by GINsim framework - http://www.esil.univ-
mrs.fr/~chaouiya/GINsim/)

5. Export - diagrams can be exported in different formats
- PNG (Portable Network Graphic)
- JPEG
- BMP (bitmap)
- SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics - http://www.gupro.de/GXL/)
- GXL (Graph eXchange Language - http://www.gupro.de/GXL/)

6. New extension points
- diagramImport
- diagramExport

7. SBW 2.0.0 - new version of Systems Biology Workbench is used in
SBW plug-in.

BioUML simulation engines now are more or less stable and bugs free.
Now the main limitation is user interface that does not allows user
to utilize all power of simulation engine. Thus main priority for
next versions will be user interface enhancements.

Starting from this version we will try to follow XP (eXtreme
Programming) practices more thoroughly and release new versions more
frequently with smaller changes.

With best regards,
BioUML team