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

Abstract

Summary: 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. © The Author 2004. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.