For this purpose, it was necessary to develop a graphical language (meaningful to humans), a computer-readable language (onto which the graphical language can be mapped) and software that would allow charting a large map of molecular interactions and, simultaneously, creating a computer-readable file (serving as a database).
Among its services, the Ascension converts paper documents and handwritten notes into computer-readable files — known as OCR.
The CD-ROM displays all these data, as well as 134 additional data files, in PDF format and in fully documented computer readable standard electronic files (SELF and ELDATA t.
However, SBML and BioPAX are the most useful file formats till now, as these are xml based, computer readable, easy to access and most importantly, these file formats use specific legends or graphical notations to annotate the pathway species (proteins, ions, complex, genes, etc).
All collected meta information is presented in corresponding experiment descriptor files in both human and computer readable form.
The large amounts of data required are stored in computer readable formats in data libraries and include the general purpose files used for neutronics calculations.
The services, implementing the OpenTox API for compounds, datasets, and features, enable importing arbitrary files with chemical structures and their properties, allowing linking to computer readable information about the data fields, as well as keeping provenance information.
Soon volunteers from around the world joined in to keep the data flowing and translate data posted only in Japanese until Steinbach could write a computer script to automatically "scrape" the data from the site and dump them into a readable file at intervals.
The large amount of data required is stored in computer readable formats in data libraries and the most common of these are the general purpose files used for neutronics or transport calculations.
