Table 1

phyloXML elements and attributes summary

Element/Attribute

Description and Sub-elements


phylogeny

Represents a phylogeny, contains clades.

clade

Used recursively to represent node of a phylogeny.

taxonomy

Represents taxonomic information.

id

code

scientific_name

common_name

synonym

authority

sequence

A gene or protein associated with a clade.

symbol

accession

name

location

mol_seq

uri

annotation

domain_architecture

events

Events at a clade.

type

duplications

speciations

losses

confidence

annotation

Annotation of sequence.

desc

confidence

property

uri

property

Typed and referenced mixed (free text) content.

uri

Uniform resource identifier (e.g. a URL).

confidence

Statistical confidence.

distribution

Geographic distribution of the items of a clade.

date

Date associated with a clade.

sequence_relation

Typed relationship between two sequences.

clade_relation

Typed relationship between two clades.

id_ref

Attribute, used together with id_source to describe relations between various elements.

id_source

Attribute, used together with id_ref to describe relations between various elements.


Representative elements and attributes of phyloXML (version 1.10) are shown. XML element/attribute names are in bold letters.

Han and Zmasek BMC Bioinformatics 2009 10:356   doi:10.1186/1471-2105-10-356

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