The carbohydrate sequence markup language (CabosML): an XML description of carbohydrate structures

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25 November 2004

journal article
research article
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Bioinformatics

Vol. 21 (8) , 1717-1718
https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/bti152

Abstract

Summary: Bioinformatics resources for glycomics are very poor as compared with those for genomics and proteomics. The complexity of carbohydrate sequences makes it difficult to define a common language to represent them, and the development of bioinformatics tools for glycomics has not progressed. In this study, we developed a carbohydrate sequence markup language (CabosML), an XML description of carbohydrate structures. Availability: The language definition (XML Schema) and an experimental database of carbohydrate structures using an XML database management system are available at http://www.phoenix.hydra.mki.co.jp/CabosDemo.html Contact:kikuchi@hydra.mki.co.jp

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