  Motivation: Estimating model parameters from experimental observations is one
of the key challenges in systems biology and can be computationally very
expensive. While the Julia programming language was recently developed as a
high-level and high-performance language for scientific computing, systems
biologists have only started to realise its potential. For instance, we have
recently used Julia to cut down the optimization time of a microbial community
model by a factor of 140. To facilitate access of the systems biology community
to the efficient nonlinear solvers used for this optimisation, we developed
SBML2Julia. SBML2Julia translates optimisation problems specified in SBML and
TSV files (PEtab format) into Julia for Mathematical Programming (JuMP),
executes the optimization and returns the results in tabular format.
  Availability and implementation: SBML2Julia is freely available under the MIT
license. It comes with a command line interface and Python API. Internally,
SBML2Julia calls the Julia LTS release v1.0.5 for optimisation. All necessary
dependencies can be pulled from Docker Hub
(https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/paulflang/sbml2julia). Source code
and documentation are available at https://github.com/paulflang/SBML2Julia.
