AbstractFBCModels.jl

Package AbstractFBCModels.jl defines a very general interface that allows access to data stored in flux-balanced constrained (FBC) models, which is a common way to represent metabolic models of organisms of various scales.

The interface enables 3 main goals:

• You can load and save data from/to various types of FBC models, including the MatLab-based format (as used e.g. by CobraToolbox), JSON-based format (adopted by CobraPy), SBML, and others.
• You can freely convert the model data among the formats using standard Julia convert().
• If you created a new model exchange format, you can make it usable in all packages that already work with AbstractFBCModel interface just by implementing the API methods.

The package provides an additional "canonical model" format (in submodule CanonicalModel) that implements the bare minimum of features required to store all data representable via the general interface. You can use it as a base for implementing more complex model formats, or as a safe middle-point for model data conversion. See the examples in the documentation for details.

This package is lightweight and implements no other specific functionality. To load data from actual model formats, you will also need other packages that implement the functionality, such as SBMLFBCModels.jl.