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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Mar 9.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Biotechnol. 2010 Sep 9;28(9):935–942. doi: 10.1038/nbt.1666

Figure 1.

Figure 1

BioPAX is a shared language for biological pathways. BioPAX reduces the effort required to efficiently communicate between pathway users, databases and software tools. Without a shared language, each system must speak the language of all other systems in the worst case (black lines). With a shared language, each system only needs to speak that language (central red box).

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