Standardization of data ow for laboratory automation software based on XML technology

Analytical information markup language(AnIML) is the developing XML standard for analytical chemistry data. It is a combination of a highly flexible AnlML core schema that defines XML tagging for any kind of analytical information and a set of analytical technique instance documents (ATID) XML files, one per analytical technique, applying tight constraints to the flexible core and which in turn are defined by the technique schema which can be extended for vendor-specific and institutional-specific parameters. This open-source development platform for a new standard can be applied to the lab automation systems. This paper introduces AnlML as a software platforms in the aspect of interchanging data between analytical chemistry instruments, computer applications, and databases with XML (extensible markup language) base. Especially focusing the movement of standardization in the area of lab automation, AnlML deserves to be watched as a new way to interchange and store spectroscopy and chromatography data based on XML. This article presents an overview of AnlML and will look into efforts that have been gaining momentum to develop a new all-embracing data standard for analytical data based on XML applicable to the clinical laboratory