[3] The idea of developing a standard format for simulation experiment encoding was born at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI).

[4] The SED-ML project was first discussed publicly at the 12th SBML Forum Meeting in 2007, in Long Beach (US).

The first version of SED-ML was then presented at the "Super-hackathon "standards and ontologies for Systems Biology"" in Okinawa in 2008.

Since then SED-ML has been developed in collaboration with the communities forming the "computational modeling in biology network" COMBINE.

Besides dedicated sessions at various meetings, the development of SED-ML benefits from community interactions on the SED-ML-discuss mailing list.