[BiO BB] Please guide me

[Svensson, B.A.T. (HKG)]

And what precisely is the relation between a common
XML file format and a "common" database schema?

-----Original Message-----
From: Austin Tanney
To: bio_bulletin_board at bioinformatics.org
Sent: 2004-01-30 10:01
Subject: RE: [BiO BB] Please guide me

Use of common schema is a huge advantage to biological research in
general. I work in the microarray field and a great deal of work is
ongoing into the process of standardisation of data and storage formats.
The MGED have developed their own mark-up language (MAGE-ML) as well as
the MIAME standards. This, combined with the development of the EBI's
arayexpress database, will be greatly facilitative to the sharing of
microarray data between researchers. Common schema's in general have
wide applications both for industry, in that it allows multi site
organisations to easily share data, and for academia where the transfer
of information between research groups can be essential.

Austin


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-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Bolser [mailto:dmb at mrc-dunn.cam.ac.uk]
Sent: 29 January 2004 23:34
To: bio_bulletin_board at bioinformatics.org
Cc: B.A.T.Svensson at lumc.nl
Subject: RE: [BiO BB] Please guide me


++ HKG--
> What would the benefits of a common schema be?

interoperability, foundation of the field, common development
environment, growth

I guess people can add more.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrius
>
> Won't it be a good idea to develop one. It seems that tools for doing
> bioinformatics are still maturing and one of the things to make them
mature are
> common schemas and standards.
>
> I think there's a nice potential for developers in this direction.
>
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