[SED-ML-discuss] SED-ML reports

[Frank T. B. <fbergman@u.washington.edu>]

Hello all, 

I've had a question today that was: What does SED-ML mean by 'reports' ??

And honestly I was not quite sure how to answer it ... the current SED-ML
specification says: 

"The Report class defines an output type that returns the simulation result
in actual numbers.
The particular columns of the report table are defined by creating a DataSet
for each column."

That might not be enough of a specification. What people probably expect is
to obtain results in form of CSV or SBRML, or is that a tool issue?
What do we expect tools to generate when we ask them for a report?

As far as I interpret it ... we don't say anything about serialization of
the report ... thus the most likely interpretation is that the tool in some
form presents the table with the results to the user, who then chooses a
serialization format for the data in the table?

Cheers
Frank