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Bioinformatics Advance Access published online on April 8, 2004
Bioinformatics, doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/bth251
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Received November 14, 2003
Revised February 13, 2004
Accepted March 16, 2004

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Pedro: a configurable data entry tool for XML

Kevin L. Garwood 1*, Chris F. Taylor 2, Kai J. Runte 2, Andy Brass 3, Stephen G. Oliver 4, Norman W. Paton 1

1 Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
2 European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire CB10 1SD, UK
3 Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK; School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PT, UK
4 School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PT, UK

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: garwood{at}cs.man.ac.uk.


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Summary: Pedro is a JavaTM application that dynamically generates data entry forms for data models expressed in XML Schema, producing XML data files that validate against that schema. The software uses an intuitive tree-based navigation system, can supply context-sensitive help to users, and features a sophisticated interface for populating data fields with terms from controlled vocabularies. The software also has the ability to import records from tab delimited text files, and features various validation routines.

Availability: The application, source code, example models from several domains, and tutorials can be downloaded from http://pedro.man.ac.uk/.


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