Notions of similarity for systems biology models

@article{Henkel2017NotionsOS,
  title={Notions of similarity for systems biology models},
  author={Ron Henkel and R. Hoehndorf and Tim Kacprowski and Christian Kn{\"u}pfer and Wolfram Liebermeister and Dagmar Waltemath},
  journal={Briefings in Bioinformatics},
  year={2017},
  volume={19},
  pages={77 - 88}
}
Abstract Systems biology models are rapidly increasing in complexity, size and numbers. When building large models, researchers rely on software tools for the retrieval, comparison, combination and merging of models, as well as for version control. These tools need to be able to quantify the differences and similarities between computational models. However, depending on the specific application, the notion of ‘similarity’ may greatly vary. A general notion of model similarity, applicable to… 
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