> > a different XML dialect could be used for structure information > > (including structural annotations in sequences). > > Yes. I'm not sure where to begin on structure. Someone here had ideas > on this, but I'm not sure who or what became of them. I am still in contact with people at EMBL who are working on an DTD that is equivalent to mmCIF plus a converter in both directions (written in Python). There have been some delays (caused by real work ;-) but they are optimistic to have it ready soon. This seems the most promising structure DTD to me. > Although, perhaps we don't even need to bother trying to express the > internal Loci data stuff as XML. Will we ever need to write it out to XML? I'd say everything that is saved to a file for archiving or non-immediate reuse should be XML, if only to give users a chance to understand what's inside without any special program! Konrad. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Konrad Hinsen | E-Mail: hinsen at cnrs-orleans.fr Centre de Biophysique Moleculaire (CNRS) | Tel.: +33-2.38.25.55.69 Rue Charles Sadron | Fax: +33-2.38.63.15.17 45071 Orleans Cedex 2 | Deutsch/Esperanto/English/ France | Nederlands/Francais -------------------------------------------------------------------------------