XEMBL: distributing EMBL data in XML format.
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/
Wang
Lichun
L
European Bioinformatics Institute, EMBL Outstation - Hinxton, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SD, UK. lcwang@ebi.ac.uk
Riethoven
Jean-Jack
JJ
Robinson
Alan
A
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*