title: XEMBL: distributing EMBL data in XML format.
abstract: Data in the EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Database is traditionally available in a flat file format that has a number of known shortcomings. With XML rapidly emerging as a standard data exchange format that can address some problems of flat file formats by defining data structure and syntax, there is now a demand to distribute EMBL data in an XML format. XEMBL is a service tool that employs CORBA servers to access EMBL data, and distributes the data in XML format via a number of mechanisms.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  Use of the XEMBL service is free of charge at http://www.ebi.ac.uk/xembl/, and can be accessed via web forms, CGI, and a SOAP-enabled service.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  Information on the EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Database is available at http://www.ebi.ac.uk/embl/. The EMBL Object Model is available at http://corba.ebi.ac.uk/models/. Information on the EMBL CORBA servers is at http://corba.ebi.ac.uk/
authors.affiliation: European Bioinformatics Institute, EMBL Outstation - Hinxton, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SD, UK. lcwang@ebi.ac.uk
authors.forename: Lichun
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Jean-Jack
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Riethoven
authors.forename: Alan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Robinson
mesh_terms: D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003205:Computing Methodologies; D003628:Database Management Systems; D030561:Databases, Nucleic Acid; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D020407:Internet; D011381:Programming Languages; D017421:Sequence Analysis / Q000379:methods*