Andreas Dräger¹, Hannes Planatscher¹, Dieudonné Motsou Wouamba¹, Adrian Schröder¹, Michael Hucka², Lukas Endler³, Martin Golebiewski⁴, Wolfgang Müller⁴, and Andreas Zell¹

¹Center for Bioinformatics Tübingen (ZBIT), Germany, ²California Institute of Technology, Beckman Institute BNMC, Pasadena, United States, ³European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, United Kingdom, ⁴Scientific Databases and Visualization Group, EML Research gGmbH, Heidelberg, Germany

Short description: SBML2L^AT_EX is a tool to convert files in the System Biology Markup Language SBML) format into L^AT_EX files. A convenient online version is available, which allows the user to directly generate report from SBML in form of PDF or TeX, which can be further processed to various file types including DVI, PS, EPS, GIF, JPG, or PNG. SBML2L^AT_EX can also be downloaded and used locally in batch mode or interactively with its Graphical User Interface or several command line options. The purpose of SBML2L^AT_EX is to provide a way to read the contents of XML-based SBML files. This is helpful and important for, e.g., error detection, proofreading and model communication.