The Analytical Information Markup Language (AnIML) is an open

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standard for storing and sharing any analytical chemistry and biological data.

AnIML and FAIR data

A main reason of using AnIML is that

FAIR data FAIR data is data which meets the FAIR principles of findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability (FAIR). The acronym and principles were defined in a March 2016 paper in the journal '' Scientific Data'' by a consortium of sc ...

(Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) standards are automatically implemented. As AnIML's structure is human-readable, Accessibility is given.

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and

Findability Findability is the ease with which information contained on a website can be found, both from outside the website (using search engines and the like) and by users already on the website. Although findability has relevance outside the World Wide Web, ...

are secured by the AnIML Core and AnIML Technique Definitions.

History

AnIML has been continuously worked on starting from 2003 up to 2020. The last AnIML Core Version update happened in 2010. So far, no standardisation document nor public example files have been published. The standard exists only in pre-release form.

Architecture

AnIML is a

standard which consists of two logical layers: * AnIML Core * AnIML Technique Definitions Additionally, AnIML Technique Definition Documents apply constraints to the AnIML Core and are specified by the AnIML Technique Definitions. The AnIML Core consists of a set of rules defining the structure of the

document, providing a universal container for arbitrary analytical data. AnIML Technique Definitions describe how to use the AnIML Core to record experiments of a particular scientific discipline. There is a big similarity between the mechanisms of AnIML and the

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format. The AnIML Core defines the data container, whereas the AnIML Technique Definitions act similar to the

codec. It defines how the data needs to be structured and labeled. Technique Definitions are

documents, specified by the Technique Schema.

References

External links

official website
* {{GitHub, AnIML XML-based standards Cheminformatics Bioinformatics Digital container formats