What is the BMA?

Bio Model Analyzer is a new biological modelling tool that illustrates signalling pathways and determines cellular stabilization. The tool represents a merging of perspectives from systems biology, formal methods, human computer interaction and design. At one level, Bio Model Analyzer is a sketching tool that enables users to draw out a biological system of interest (e.g. a genetic regulatory network) by dragging and dropping cells, their contents (DNA, proteins, etc.), extracellular components and relationships onto a simple canvas.

At another level, Bio Model Analyzer’s analysis proves stabilization of biological systems, based upon formal methods that were developed for the specification and verification of properties in concurrent software systems. We hope you enjoy using Bio Model Analyzer and welcome your feedback.

Maintenance, development and design of the Bio Model Analyzer is funded by the Royal Society and the MRC. The Bio Model Analyzer was originally developed and supported by Microsoft Research.

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Modelling Biological Networks with the Bio Model Analyzer
Introduction to Bio Model Analyzer
Live Bio Model Analyzer demonstration
Bio Model Analyzer demonstration
Launch Tool
Example Library and References
Toy Example 1 (stabilising)
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Toy Example 2 (non stabilising)
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Cancer Signalling Tutorial
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Metabolism Network Tutorial
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Cell fate determination during C. elegans vulval development
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Mammalian Epidermis
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Understanding leukaemia
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Publications
Laure Talarmain, Matthew A. Clarke, David Shorthouse, Lilia Cabrera-Cosme, David G. Kent, Jasmin Fisher and Benjamin A. Hall, Nature Communications 13, 5829 (2022), DOI 10.1038/s41467-022-33189-w
Peter Kreuzaler, Matthew A. Clarke, Elizabeth J. Brown, Catherine H. Wilson, Roderik M. Kortlever, Nir Piterman, Trevor Littlewood, Gerard I. Evan, and Jasmin Fisher PNAS 2019, DOI 10.1073/pnas.1903485116
David Shorthouse, Angela Riedel, Emma Kerr, Luisa Pedro, Dóra Bihary, Shamith Samarajiwa, Carla P. Martins, Jacqueline Shields, Benjamin A. Hall Nature Communications volume 9, Article number: 3011 (2018), DOI:10.1038/s41467-018-05414-y
Matthew A. Clarke, Steven Woodhouse, Nir Piterman, Benjamin A. Hall and Jasmin Fisher In Automated Reasoning for Systems Biology and Medicine 2018
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Funding
Open source development of the BioModelAnalyzer has been supported by the following grants.
Azure for Research
2017-2018
Microsoft
Ben Hall
Royal Society Enhancement Award (RGF\EA\180224)
2017-2022
Royal Society
Ben Hall
MRC Cancer Unit Core Funding
2017-2022
Medical Research Council
Ben Hall
New investigator research grant (MR/S000216/1)
2018-2022
Medical Research Council
Ben Hall
Team

Ben Hall
Systems Biology UCL
Jasmin Fisher
Computational Biology UCL Cancer Institute
Nir Piterman
Verification and Automated Reasoning University of Gothenburg
Nicole Kapitza
Design Kapitza Studio
Rachel Alcraft
Architecture and programming UCL
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I open Bio Model Analyzer?
How do I drag and drop elements onto the canvas?
How do I zoom and scroll around the canvas?
How do I name and give ranges to variables?
What are some basic target functions?
How do I use advanced target functions?
What happens with variables with different ranges?
How do I save my work to the model library?
How do I export and import XML files?
How do I move between models in my library?
Bio Model Analyzer freezes while I’m working;
how do I stop this?
Is this just a nice drawing tool?
What kind of analysis does Bio Model Analyzer do?
Why are there only one variable and one constant icon?
How am I to represent the many different kinds of biological elements?
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Open Source

The BioModelAnalyzer is an open source project, available under the MIT license. In addition to the web interface, command line tools are available that offer new analyses not currently available through the GUI.

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Alumni
Byron Cook - University College London
Samin Ishtiaq - Microsoft Research
Scarlet Schwiderski-Grosche - Microsoft Research
David Benque - Protoplot
Inna Zelenina - Moscow State University
Svetlana Kostyukova - Moscow State University
Dmitry Kats - Moscow State University
Dmitry Voytsekhovskiy - Moscow State University
Sergey Berezin - Moscow State University
Nikita Skoblov - Moscow State University
Alex Taylor - University of London