Subject: Re: CCL:XDfile format Reviews

From: "E.L. Willighagen" <egonw*at*sci.kun.nl>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 09:36:23 +0200

On Tuesday 21 October 2003 23:33, Keith Taylor wrote:
> MDL has developed a data interchange format for use in our new generation
> of chemical information systems.  The new format, the XDfile, is based on
> XML. In anticipation of its wider use for chemical data interchange, we
> have published the format in an update to the MDL(r) CTfile Format
> document.
>
> CTfile.pdf (version October 2003) may be downloaded from our web site.

Good to see that you are picking up XML. Unfortunately, it seems that only the
metadate is being marked up, and not the chemistry itself. Is MDL working on
converting the MDL mol format to XML too?

kind regards,

Egon 

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