Achard F, Vaysseix G, Barillot E
CRI Infobiogen, 523 place des terrasses de l'agora, 91000 Evry, France.
Bioinformatics. 2001 Feb;17(2):115-25. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/17.2.115.
The eXtensible Markup Language (XML) is an emerging standard for structuring documents, notably for the World Wide Web. In this paper, the authors present XML and examine its use as a data language for bioinformatics. In particular, XML is compared to other languages, and some of the potential uses of XML in bioinformatics applications are presented. The authors propose to adopt XML for data interchange between databases and other sources of data. Finally the discussion is illustrated by a test case of a pedigree data model in XML.
可扩展标记语言(XML)是一种用于构建文档的新兴标准,尤其适用于万维网。在本文中,作者介绍了XML,并探讨了其作为生物信息学数据语言的用途。特别是,将XML与其他语言进行了比较,并介绍了XML在生物信息学应用中的一些潜在用途。作者提议采用XML进行数据库与其他数据源之间的数据交换。最后,通过一个XML谱系数据模型的测试用例对讨论进行了说明。