Planned developments

Please note the list below is provisional and subject to change.

Features

• Model sorting according to configurable criteria
• Capture keywords for models
• View of audit trail for a model
• Refined notification system
• User settings and favourite models
• Model templates
• Request access to a model
• Support for model reviews
• Secured programmatic access, retrieval and update of private models using OAuth
• Capture link between parent models and descendants

Technical updates

• Upgrade to Grails 3
• Performance-related improvements
• Server-side caching

Past milestones

• Improved model search
• Core infrastructure with plugins
• High level support for multiple database engines (testing using MySQL and PostgreSQL)
• High level support for multiple version control systems (SVN, Git)
• High level support for multiple remote access mechanisms (JMS, DBus, Apache Camel)
• Scalable and versioned storage infrastructure
• Initial support for SBML
• Batch models submission
• Switch to Java 8
• Model submission pipeline (with support for additional files and basic metadata)
• Initial support for OMEX archive
• Proper themes for UI
• Models browsing: paginated list of all hosted models the current user has access to
• Initial model display: overview, files and history
• Support for PharmML
• User management: user account creation, update and management
• Handling of publications: attach publication to models and display their details
• Model publication: make selected models available to all, without the need for login
• Web services (using REST): programmatic retrieval of specific public models
• Upgrade to Grails 2.5
• Richer model display for models encoded in standard formats such as PharmML
• Pre-visualisation of additional files (supporting many text file formats including CSV, images and PDF files)
• Improved model submission and update (better handling of main and additional files)
• Some user preferences stored (for example for model browsing)
• Generation of audit trails for each model
• Contextual help to allow the display of some help related to the current display/action
• Creation/edition of user teams
• Sharing of models with specific users and teams
• Basic user-specific notifications via his/her homepage (and email)
• Improved search engine (with extraction of additional information from ontological terms and controlled vocabularies)
• Model classification supporting simple tags and facets
• Flexible strategy for capturing high-level model metadata