title: The carbohydrate sequence markup language (CabosML): an XML description of carbohydrate structures.
abstract: 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.
  
  
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  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
  
  
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  kikuchi@hydra.mki.co.jp.
authors.affiliation: Mitsui Knowledge Industry Co., Ltd., Nakano-ku, Tokyo, Japan. kikuchi@hydra.mki.co.jp
authors.forename: Norihiro
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kikuchi
authors.forename: Akihiko
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kameyama
authors.forename: Shuuichi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nakaya
authors.forename: Hiromi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ito
authors.forename: Takashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sato
authors.forename: Toshihide
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Shikanai
authors.forename: Yoriko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Takahashi
authors.forename: Hisashi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Narimatsu
mesh_terms: 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
chemical_list: D002241:Carbohydrates