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1: Bioinformatics. 2005 Apr 15;21(8):1717-8. Epub 2004 Nov 25.Click here to read Links
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Bioinformatics. 2005 May 15;21(10):2572.

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

Kikuchi N, Kameyama A, Nakaya S, Ito H, Sato T, Shikanai T, Takahashi Y, Narimatsu H.

Mitsui Knowledge Industry Co., Ltd., Nakano-ku, Tokyo, Japan. kikuchi@hydra.mki.co.jp

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.

PMID: 15564307 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]