StarDOM: From STAR format to XML

StarDOM is a software package for the representation of STAR files as docum ent object models and the conversion of STAR files into XML. This allows in teractive navigation by using the Document Object Model representation of t he data as well as easy access by XML query languages. As an example applic ation, the entire BioMagResBank has been transformed into XML format. Using an XML query language, statistical queries on the collected NMR data sets can be constructed with very little effort. The BioMagResBank/XML data and the software can be obtained at http://www.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/nmr/StarD OM/.