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NeXML is an exchange standard for representing phyloinformatic data.[1] It was insprired by the widely used Nexus file format but uses XML to produce a more robust format for rich phylogenetic data. Advantages include Syntax validation, semantic annotation and web services. The format is broadly supported and has libries in many popular programming lianguages for bioinformatics.


  1. ^ Vos, Rutger A.; Balhoff, James P.; Caravas, Jason A.; Holder, Mark T.; Lapp, Hilmar; Maddison, Wayne P.; Midford, Peter E.; Priyam, Anurag; Sukumaran, Jeet (2012-07-01). "NeXML: Rich, Extensible, and Verifiable Representation of Comparative Data and Metadata". Systematic Biology. 61 (4): 675–689. doi:10.1093/sysbio/sys025. ISSN 1063-5157. PMC 3376374. PMID 22357728.