An introduction to using XML for the management of laboratory data.

Extensible Markup Language (XML) and the XML Path Language (XPath) are introduced with software examples demonstrating how one can use them to write laboratory data management programs. Topics explored include XML document creation, manipulation, and searching. Programming examples make use of the M...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:JALA: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Automation Vol. 6; no. 6; pp. 89 - 95
Main Authors: Russo MF, Rubin AE
Format: computer program tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Elsevier B.V. 2001 Dec
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
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Summary:Extensible Markup Language (XML) and the XML Path Language (XPath) are introduced with software examples demonstrating how one can use them to write laboratory data management programs. Topics explored include XML document creation, manipulation, and searching. Programming examples make use of the Microsoft' XML Parser library and the Visual Basic programming language. The problem of managing microplate screening data is used as an illustration. Source code for all examples can be downloaded from http://www.labprogrammer.net.