About

SBGN bricks are defined as the recurring biological paterns reflected in the SBGN languages: metabolic reaction, catalysis, inhibition, protein phosphorylation, complex formation, transcription, translation etc. The dictionary of SBGN bricks aligns biological concepts with their graphical expressions.

How to cite SBGN Bricks

Junker A, Sorokin A, Czauderna T, Schreiber F, Mazein A. Wiring diagrams in biology: towards the standardized representation of biological information. Trends Biotechnol. 2012 Nov;30(11):555-7. doi:10.1016/j.tibtech.2012.08.003. Epub 2012 Sep 11. PubMed PMID: 22979995.

The first issue of the SBGN Bricks is available at http://sbgnbricks.sourceforge.net with the SBGN Bricks Dictionary at http://sbgnbricks.sourceforge.net/sbgnbricks_dictionary.html and examples provided here.

Contact

To contribute and discuss the project please use this email address:
sbgnbricks@googlegroups.com

SBGN Bricks Project Coordinator:
Alexander Mazein a.mazein@gmail.com

SBGN Bricks Ontology:
Adrien Rougny

ModelBricks Project Leaders:
Michael Blinov blinov@uchc.edu and Ann Cowan acowan@uchc.edu

Project Team

Astrid Junker Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, Gatersleben, Germany

Alexander Mazein Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine, University of Luxembourg, Belvaux, Luxembourg

Vasundra Toure Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

Adrien Rougny National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tokyo, Japan

Falk Schreiber University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany

Tobias Czauderna Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Anatoly Sorokin Institute of Cell Biophysics, Russian Academy of Science, Pushchino, Russia

Denis Shirshov European Institute for Systems Biology and Medicine, Lyon, France

Michael Blinov UConn School of Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut, USA

Emek Demir Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, USA

Gary Bader University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada