[BioPython] XML GAME

[Karl Schmid]

Hi all,

we are currently setting up an annotatation pipeline that deals with sequence 
annotations. One problem is, of course, that different external annotation 
programs produce output in different formats and we are using Python to parse 
the output and transform them into a common format for further analysis in 
annotation editors. 

We are particularly interested in using the Apollo editor that comes from the 
Drosophila project. It takes XML Game as one of its input formats. I tried to 
find more information on XML Game on www.bioxml.org, but the site could not 
be accessed for several days. A google search did not reveal any other site 
that would contain a XML Game DTD. 

So my questions are:

1) Does anybody know what happened to the bioxml.org site?
2) Are there already any Python tools that are able to deal with GAME?
3) Is it possible to get the GAME specification from another site than 
bioxml.org?

Any useful information is highly appreciated.

Karl

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