XML schemas for common bioinformatic data types and their application in workflow systems

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Seibel, Philipp N ^a   Krüger, Jan ^b   Hartmeier, Sven ^b   Schwarzer, Knut ^c   Löwenthal, Kai ^b   Mersch, Henning ^d   Dandekar, Thomas ^a   Giegerich, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^d FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATIC TOOLS; BUILDING COMPLEXES; INTEROPERATIONS; RNA SECONDARY STRUCTURES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENTS; TECHNOLOGY NETWORK; WORK WITH EACH OTHERS; WORK-FLOW SYSTEMS;

ALIGNMENT; COMPLEX NETWORKS; RNA; TOOLS; XML;

BIOINFORMATICS;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENE SEQUENCE; INTERNET; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DATA BASE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PROCEDURES; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SOFTWARE; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 33751216367     PISSN: 14712105     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-7-490     Document Type: Article

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