A repository that stores BioModels [https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biomodels/]. This repository used in conjunction with BiomodelsCache [https://github.com/sys-bio/BiomodelsCache] can be used to speed up the search and download of BioModels. Models can be retrieved from this repository using PyGithub (GitHub API), or any other Github API as per the use cases. The Model repository contains a directory for each currated model, the contents of which is the SBML model file. The BioModels cache itself makes use of biomodels-restful-api-client to copy the models over to this GitHub repository.

It is required that you have a BioModel ID of the model you are interested in. Currently we have a JavaScript client that makes the interaction straightforward. The file is at ../searchClient/getBiomodels.js. Using this JavaScript client requires only one function call to get model information:

• const model_text = await getModel(modelID);

This takes a string corresponding to the model ID (ex: "BIOMD0000000002") and returns the SBML model as a string. For other programming languages, support for a GitHub API is needed (OctoKit, PyGithub, etc). Look at the JavaScript Client for assistance in building your own client.

• A simple HTML/js webpage that uses the JavaScript client is here: [https://github.com/sys-bio/BiomodelsStore/tree/main/example]. See example_usage.js for the actual calls to the JavaScript client and BioModels cache.
• A more developed application is MakeSBML which can download a Biomodel and translates it from SBML to Antimony.