File formats suported in GeNIe: Ergo File Format

From DSL

Ergo file format was originally implemented by Noetic Inc. in their implementation of a Bayesian network development environment, known as Ergo. It was quickly and in a somewhat ad-hoc manner embraced by various researchers using Bayesian networks because of its simplicity. Several important models developed in the first years of existence of the field of Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence were developed using Ergo format. Noetic Inc., the developers and marketers of Ergo, have since changed their file format (we have implemented the format defined in Ergo version 1.02; we approached Noetic, Inc. for a specification of the new format but have received no response) and they seem to no longer support their original format. This original, simple format has still survived in terms of useful Bayesian network models. The file extension, after Noetic Inc., is *.erg.

The format supports only Chance nodes. Only node identifiers, state names, conditional probability tables, and locations of the node centers are saved. You will lose all other information. There is no description of the format available on-line but you should be able to figure it out by looking at some simple models.