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The CellML API (upstream website: http://cellml-api.sf.net/) is an
application programming interface, along with a complete reference
implementation, for manipulating and processing mathematical models in
the CellML format (http://www.cellml.org/). It is tri-licensed under
the GPL / LGPL and MPL licenses (i.e. can be used under any one of the
three).
This packaging enables all the main features of the API implementation:
* Core library for manipulating arbitrary CellML mathematical
models. This includes a W3C DOM and W3C MathML DOM implementation.
* RDF processing library for processing CellML metadata.
* CellML Variable Association Service to simplify working with
models where the same variable is split across multiple components
(possibly imported from multiple files).
* CellML Units Simplification and Expansion Service, for processing
physical units as required by the CellML specifications.
* MathML to Language Export Service, for converting MathML
mathematical expressions into text in a customisable way.
* CellML Code Generation Service, for converting from CellML models
into imperative code for solving systems of differential-algebraic
equations described in the model.
* CellML Integration Service, for running numerical simulations
described in CellML models with SUNDIALS IDA.
* Text Language for the Input of CellML Models Service, for
converting to and from a plain-text format, to facilitate the input
and display of CellML models by and to end users.
* CellML Language Export Definition Service, for processing XML
files that describe how to translate a CellML model into imperative
code in a particular language.
* SED-ML Processing Service, for manipulating simulation experiment
descriptions in Simulation Experiment Description Markup Language
(http://sedml.org)
* SED-ML Running Service, for running simulation experiments
described in SED-ML.
* Documentation generated from the IDL files and supplementary
documentation files by Doxygen.
* Java bindings.
* Development package with C++ headers and libraries.
Packages are up on mentors.d.n:
http://mentors.debian.net/package/cellml-api
Repository containing the debian directory is up at:
git://git.debian.org/git/debian-science/packages/cellml-api.git
Package quality: The package is Lintian clean except for spurious
warnings about hardening (hardening is enabled, but some of the shared
objects don't use anything from glibc that can be hardened, and so
trigger false positive warnings) and 'shlib-calls-exit' (which is
caused by the use of a C++ flex scanner). The docs package also has a
duplicate-files warning, but this is a consequence of using Doxygen.
In addition, I have manually checked the package for compliance with
the Debian Science policy, and believe it complies.