Microbiological Common Language (MCL): a standard for electronic information 
exchange in the Microbial Commons

Verslyppe, B.; Kottmann, R.; De Smet, W.; De Baets, B.; De Vos, P.; Dawyndt, P.

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Microbiological Common Language (MCL): a standard for electronic information exchange in the Microbial Commons

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Kottmann, R.
Microbial Genomics Group, Department of Molecular Ecology, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Max Planck Society;

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Verslyppe, B., Kottmann, R., De Smet, W., De Baets, B., De Vos, P., & Dawyndt, P. (2010). Microbiological Common Language (MCL): a standard for electronic information exchange in the Microbial Commons. Research in Microbiology, 161(6), 439-445.

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Although Biological Resource Centers (BRCs) traditionally have open catalogs of their holdings, it is quite cumbersome to access meta-information about microorganisms electronically due to the variety of access methods used by those catalogs. Therefore, we propose Microbiological Common Language (MCL), aimed at standardizing the electronic exchange of meta-information about microorganisms. Its application ranges from representing the online catalog of a single collection to accessing the results of StrainInfo integration and ad hoc use in other contexts. The abstract model of the standard precisely defines the elements of the standard, which enables implementation using a variety of representation technologies. Currently, XML and RDF/XML implementations are readily available. MCL is an open standard, and therefore greatly encourages input from the microbiological community.