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BioXML Roadmap - This is a partial summary of some of the major areas of biological data that people might want to represent and how they could represent them with the current GAME. It is not meant to be comprehensive (or even close). In particular, the sub elements are incomplete. I tried to include only the most interesting ones for the sake of brevity. It's meant as a starting place to figure out what we have and what we don't. It's also meant as a reference for how to use the GAME dtd. Finally, don't take this as gospel, I'm just learning GAME myself . As always, comments are welcome.

Data Type	GAME Elements	Sub Elements	Sub Elements	Comments

sequence	seq	dbxref*		Most elements have a dbxref as an option -very convenient.
		map_position*
		clone*
		residues?

exon	feature_set	name?		eg Exon1
		type?		Exon
		evidence*		Could be computational_analysis or dbxref
		seq?

blast results	computational_analysis	program		Blast
		parameter*
		result_set*	score?
			seq_relationship*	This is the seq-region and alignment.

gene function	annotation	gene	name?
			synonym?	Seems to me like this should be synonym*
			species?
		aspect*	function

gene expression	?			I don't know how you would do this.

restriction map	computational_analysis	program
		parameter*		I guess this could be the restriction enzyme.
		result_set*	output*	name, value pair - maybe site1, 356 : site2 : 1483 .....