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


BACKGROUND
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


BACKGROUND
kikuchi@hydra.mki.co.jp.
Kikuchi
Norihiro
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Mitsui Knowledge Industry Co., Ltd., Nakano-ku, Tokyo, Japan. kikuchi@hydra.mki.co.jp
Kameyama
Akihiko
A
Nakaya
Shuuichi
S
Ito
Hiromi
H
Sato
Takashi
T
Shikanai
Toshihide
T
Takahashi
Yoriko
Y
Narimatsu
Hisashi
H
D002240:Carbohydrate Sequence; D002241:Carbohydrates / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000145:classification*; D003628:Database Management Systems; D016208:Databases, Factual; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011381:Programming Languages
D002241:Carbohydrates