BSML

June 29, 2006

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Bioinformatic Sequence Markup Language ( BSML ) is an extensible markup language ( XML ) derived standard that “encodes biological sequence information and includes graphical representations of biologically meaningful objects such as sequences, genes, electrophoresis gels, and multiple alignments”.

A detailed BSML overwiev is available here whereas the FAQ page is here.

The last BSML DTD release ( 3.1 ), the BSML reference manual and tutorial are available here. A BSML presentation is also avaible ( pdf, ppt ).

You can manage BSML file with LabBook Java Genomic XML Viewer, that is freely available, or you can purchase LabBook Genomic Workspace.

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