XML for Bioinformatics aims to provide biologists, software engineers, and bioinformatics professionals with a comprehensive introduction to XML and current XML applications in bioinformatics. The book will assume no background in XML, and take readers from basic to intermediate XML concepts. Core topics will include: fundamentals of XML, creating XML grammars, web services via SOAP, and parsing XML documents in Perl and Java.

As XML is gaining widespread appeal as a primary language in the bioinformatics community this professional reference will be valuable resource to practicing biologists, software engineers, and bioinformatics professionals in laboratory and academic settings. It provides a comprehensive introduction to XML from the basics to intermediate concepts and includes current XML bioinformatics applications.

Autorentext
Ethan Cerami is Senior Software Engineer at the Computational Biology Center, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY. Since 1997 he has also been a member of the Adjunct Faculty in Computer Science at New York University.

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XML, or Extensible Markup Language, is rapidly becoming a critical tool in bioinformatics and biological data exchange. XML is currently used to represent a diverse set of biological data, from nucleotide and protein sequences to protein-protein interactions and signal transduction pathways. XML is also used in a wide array of bioinformatics applications, including stand-alone applications, federated database systems, distributed applications, and web services.

The goal of XML for Bioinformatics is to provide a solid introduction to the emerging use of XML in the field of bioinformatics. It assumes no prior knowledge of XML, and illustrates all core concepts with specific bioinformatics examples and case studies. Core XML concepts include: fundamentals of XML, Document Type Definitions (DTDs), XML Namespaces, XML Schema, XML parsing in Perl and Java, web services and SOAP. Examples and case studies are drawn from a wide range of bioinformatics applications, including the Bioinformatic Sequence Markup Language (BSML), NCBI E-Fetch, the Distributed Annotation System (DAS), and the National Cancer Institute Cancer Bioinformatics Infrastructure Objects (caBIO) project.

A companion web site, available at: http://www.xmlbio.org/, provides complete access to all examples in the book.

Inhalt
to XML for Bioinformatics.- Fundamentals of XML and BSML.- DTDs for Bioinformatics.- XML Schemas for Bioinformatics.- Parsing NCBI XML in Perl.- The Distributed Annotation System (DAS).- Parsing DAS Data with SAX.- Parsing DAS Data with JDOM.- Web Services for Bioinformatics.