What is Chemical Markup Language?
CML (Chemical Markup Language) is a new approach to managing molecular information using recently developed Internet tools such as SGML/XML and Java. It is based strictly on SGML, the most robust and widely used system for precise information management in many areas. It has been developed over 18 months, and has been tested in many areas and on a variety of machines. CML is NOT ‘just another file format’; it is capable of holding extremely complex information structures and so acting as an interchange mechanism or for archival. It interfaces easily with modern database architectures such as relational databases or object-oriented databases.
