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<h2>Biological Expression Language</h2>
<h5>Community Portal</h5>
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<p>
The Biological Expression Language (BEL) facilitates representing scientific findings in
the life sciences in a computable form. It captures causal, correlative, and associative
relationships between biological entities along with the experimental/biological context in which
they were observed as well as the provenance of the publication from which the relation was
reported.
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<p>
BEL was created by Dexter Pratt while at Selventa, but has since become an entirely-community driven
project. A more detailed history can be found in this <a
href="https://cthoyt.com/2020/04/28/history-of-bel.html">blog post</a>.
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<p>
The <a href="http://openbel.org">OpenBEL.org</a> website is a community-driven portal whose purpose
is to provide information for new users who want to learn BEL and link to the surrounding ecosystem
of software tools. This page is generated from <a
href="https://github.com/openbel/openbel.github.io">
https://github.com/openbel/openbel.github.io</a>, so changes can either be requested through
the <a href="https://github.com/openbel/openbel.github.io/issues/new">issue tracker</a> or as a
pull request to the repository.
</p>
<h3>Specification and Tutorial</h3>
<p>
The current version (2.0+) specification and tutorial is available <a
href="http://openbel.org/language/version_2.0/bel_specification_version_2.0.html">here</a>. It
is auto-generated from <a href="https://github.com/OpenBEL/language">https://github.com/OpenBEL/language</a>.
Disclaimer: it needs a bit of work for updating for BEL 2.1 and BEL 2.2.
</p>
<p>
The <a href="https://bel.bio/">BEL.bio</a> project hosts additional programatically generated <a
href="https://language.bel.bio"> language
documentation</a> as well as structured <a
href="https://github.com/belbio/bel_specifications/tree/master/specifications">EBNF
specifications</a> of each version of BEL.
</p>
<h3>Language Evolution</h3>
<p>
Changes and improvements are submitted as BEL Enhancement Proposals (BEPs) then
reviewed by the <a href="https://github.com/belbio/bep/blob/master/CommitteeGuidelines.md">BEL
Language Committee</a>. A listing
of all BEPs can be found <a href="http://bep.bel.bio/">here</a>. A tutorial on how
to submit a BEP can be found <a href="https://github.com/belbio/bep">here</a>.
</p>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://medium.com/bel-news/bel-v2-2-enhancements-cfb4b27b22cb">BEL v2.2</a> was
published on September 24<sup>th</sup>, 2019.
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://medium.com/bel-news/bel-2-1-enhancements-ac79b078ad5a">BEL v2.1</a> was
published on December 10<sup>th</sup>, 2018.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://openbel.org/language/version_2.0/bel_specification_version_2.0.html">BEL
v2.0</a> was published in June 2014.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://openbel.org/language/version_1.0/bel_specification_version_1.0.html">BEL
v1.0</a> was published in July 2012.
</li>
</ul>
<h3>Community</h3>
<p>
The BEL community primarily uses <a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/openbel-discuss">
Google Groups</a> is used for discussions, troubleshooting, and community organization. Additional
discussion may also be found in the <a href="https://forum.bel.bio">BEL.bio project forum</a>.
</p>
<p>
There are several openly available sources of BEL Content hosted by different organizations.
Selventa originally published two large example BEL documents that serve as a good starting point -
the <a
href="https://github.com/cthoyt/selventa-knowledge/blob/master/selventa_knowledge/small_corpus.bel">Selventa
Small
Corpus</a> and the <a
href="https://github.com/cthoyt/selventa-knowledge/blob/master/selventa_knowledge/large_corpus.bel">Selventa
Large
Corpus</a>. A summary of other publicly accessible BEL content can be found in this <a
href="https://cthoyt.com/2020/04/30/public-bel-content.html">blog post</a>.
</p>
<h3>Software</h3>
<p>
The following is a mixture of web applications and software tools/ecosystems for BEL listed in
alphabetical order. If you would like your tool included in this list, please let us know via the
<a href="https://github.com/openbel/openbel.github.io/issues/new">issue tracker.</a>
</p>
<dl>
<dt><a href="https://github.com/bel-commons/bel-commons">BEL Commons</a></dt>
<dd></dd>
<dt><a href="https://bel.bio">BEL.bio</a></dt>
<dd></dd>
<dt><a href="https://github.com/bio2bel/bio2bel">Bio2BEL</a></dt>
<dd></dd>
<dt><a href="https://biodati.com/">BioDati Studio</a></dt>
<dd></dd>
<dt><a href="https://github.com/pybel/pybel">PyBEL</a></dt>
<dd></dd>
</dl>
<h3>Citation</h3>
<p>
While BEL was created by Dexter Pratt at Selventa in the early 2000's, the most recent reference
publication for the language itself is:
</p>
<p>
Slater, T. (2014). <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drudis.2013.12.011">Recent advances in
modeling languages for pathway maps and computable biological networks.</a>
<i>Drug Discovery Today</i>, <b>19</b>(2), 193–198.
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