[GUSDEV] TIGR XML DTD

[Brian H. <bh...@ti...>]

Greetings.

I understand there was some confusion regarding the TIGR XML DTD.  There is only one XML 
format supported by TIGR and the DTD is located at:

ftp://ftp.tigr.org/pub/data/DTDs/tigrxml.dtd

All changes to the DTD are well documented, and all older XML files originally designed to 
this spec should be backwards compatible with the latest DTD.

There may be some confusion because certain groups were supplying .coords files for 
annotation in a long deprecated XML format which was originally designed for internal use 
only and never should have made it to the public arena.  I'll see to it that these are 
purged from our ftp site, and replaced with more suitably formatted files, as needed.


As an aside, the TIGR XML format is slowly being phased out, to be eventually replaced 
with GFF3.  I expect this will occur later this year, or early next year.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Best regards,

-Brian

-- 
Brian J. Haas
Bioinformatics Engineer
The Institute for Genomic Research
(301) 795-7988
email: bh...@ti...
http://www.tigr.org/~bhaas

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