Main improvements in this PR: Features (PR #393): speed up importYaml in loading model fields Features (PR #392): turn importYaml into a more generic function Features (PR #388): add help functions that are used together with ftINIT in RAVEN Fixes (PR #382): change metabolic task file format from xlsx to txt inactivate human biomass reaction (MAR13082), as suggested in Mouse-GEM PR #11 add proper LB and UB values to annotation field, as reported in Mouse-GEM PR #12 turn annotateGEM into a more generic function, as discussed in Convert annotateGEM into a more generic function #380 Fixes (PR #379): flag reactions MAR05127, MAR08749, MAR08750 as spontaneous, as identified in #349 Style (PR #374): doc: tINIT rename 'exchange metabolites' to 'boundary metabolites in getINITModel2 Features (PR #367): add reaction names from KEGG, to address #181 Fixes (PR #365): merge MAR08973 into MAR04474, as suggested in #346 Fixes (PR #362): resolves #342 by applying the suggestion to remove the gene (and thus the GPR) and mark MAR04840 as spontaneous Fixes (PR #358): - correct CHEBI associations to avoid conflict during MNXref conversion