Distribution of immunodeficiency fact files with XML--from Web to WAP.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although biomedical information is growing rapidly, it is difficult to find and retrieve validated data especially for rare hereditary diseases. There is an increased need for services capable of integrating and validating information as well as proving it in a logically organized structure. A XML-based language enables creation of open source databases for storage, maintenance and delivery for different platforms.

Methods

Here we present a new data model called fact file and an XML-based specification Inherited Disease Markup Language (IDML), that were developed to facilitate disease information integration, storage and exchange. The data model was applied to primary immunodeficiencies, but it can be used for any hereditary disease. Fact files integrate biomedica

SUBMITTER: Valiaho J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1184081 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature