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Text Formatting Rules

All text files used as input to the Systems Biology Research Tool must conform to certain basic standards:

  1. Lines must be terminated with a system-dependent new line character.
  2. Any leading or trailing whitespace characters (i.e. spaces, tabs, etc.) in a line are ignored.
  3. Blank or empty lines are ignored.
  4. Any lines whose first non-whitespace character is the pound/number sign "#" are ignored.

See Wikipedia for more information about new line characters.