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Notes for later use in discussing BEL:

"Creating a tapestry of biology from a BKN"

BEL allows adding individual assertions into a BKN that can be sliced to create models of the biology of a cell, tissue, organ or organism.

BKN = knowledgebase of possible biology Model = Cytoscape Network extracted from a BKN = actual representation of biology

Whiteboard / Napkin / Presentation Friendly

BEL should adapt well to different formats as needed. It should look fine in highly polished documents or presentations in the boardroom, but at the same time be useful written on the back of a napkin. It should be practical to write BEL drawings on a whiteboard while discussing biology. In other words, precise usage of BEL is okay, but sloppy usage of BEL is also okay.

Scales Up, Scales Down

BEL should be suitable for sparing use, to describe a simple idea with minimal effort. At the same time you should also be able to use BEL extensively, to describe large, complex systems, without encountering limitations in the language.

Some of this text was adapted from http://www.cavelanguage.org