The Week 8
Greetings, Glad to tell you that we have completely covered all the metadata classes including the "notes" feature, which by now was having only minimal support in COBRApy. I have already discussed the annotations classes in the previous blogs, so let me now give you a summary of the "notes" feature. "Notes" in SBML are a place to store any type of information that is intended to be seen by humans only. We should not have any machine parseable information in it. However, a few years back, when SBML did not have support for adding some of the properties/information anywhere in the document, they were put into the "notes" field in the form of key-value pairs, and later extracted from the "notes" string when required. When support for these features was added in the SBML, encoding of any data inside the "notes" field was restricted again. But this led to the presence of some models out there in the world, which has that inform...