semanticSBML - Limitations

The current version of semanticSBML supports only a limited set of SBML features:
  1. SpeciesType tags are not yet supported.
  2. Event tags are supported in model annotation, but not yet in model merging.
  3. AlgebraicRule tags are not supported in model merging. We think that merging models containing algebraic rules can be risky anyway.
  4. In model merging, reactions are compared only by their MIRIAM annotations, not yet by their substrates and products.
Note also the following limitations
  1. For its internal database, the program requires about 450 Mb of memory.
  2. The string serach for new potential annotations yields a list of database IDs. The displayed names need not match the names used in the original database itself. The reason is that semanticSBML tries to collect equivalent database IDs and matches them to a single name (taken from one of the databases), indicating that these IDs are treated as exactly equivalent.
  3. In the annotate GUI, buttons for adding retrieved annotations may react slowly; in case of trouble, just try again or insert the found annotation directly by its ID.

If you encounter other important features that are not yet supported, please contact us or report them to the bug tracker at sourceforge.