Dear Monks,

I wish to make an MSc project proposal for my supervisor to use and I was wondering whether people here could offer advice. I am developing an XML structure that represents genomic features; attribute values include application commands and directory locations. For those of a genomics/bioinformatic background; I am developing an XML database that uses EMBOSS database features. If anyone can show examples of something similar I would be really interested to see it. I have not yet designed an XML DTD or XML Schema. XML Schema seems, at present, to only be available for use with Java modules. Does anyone know whether this is likely to soon be supported by Perl also? I have heard that XML Schema offers many advantages over DTDs. What I want to know is if people believe that it is appropriate to propose a 6 month MSc bioinformatics project that first ways up the pros and cons of DTDs over XML Schemas for applications in genomics and then, depending on the results of the initial evaluation, and skills of the student, sets out to develop Perl modules for the support of XML Schema. Am I being totally unrealistic here? Maybe I can propose two projects to run in parallel. Although at this stage I am not sure how I could split this.

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