• 15.04.07: Updated bibliography.
  • 13.01.06: A CML Wiki to discuss and disseminate news and information is now available
  • 7.02.05: CMLReact. A publication-ready new version of this schema is now available.
  • 6.09.04: Chemical Markup Language: a two-day workshop at the University of Cambridge.
  • 15.03.04: CMLRSS is a new "newsfeed" protocol using CML as a extension to the RDF-based RSS 1.0 protocol. Distribution kits are available here or here and the method is published as: P. Murray-Rust, H. S. Rzepa, M. J. Williamson and E. L. Willighagen, "Chemical Markup, XML and the Worldwide Web. Part 5. Applications of Chemical Metadata in RSS Aggregators", J. Chem. Inf. Comp. Sci., 2004, 44, 462-469.
  • 1.03.04: cdx2cml (ChemDraw) and Word2cml Legacy converters (Java source code) available.
  • 18.01.04: A Complete Element and Attribute listing for the CML Family (generated from the schemas, 724 entries).
  • 1.12.03. The Complete CML Schema has been added to the WiKi pages
  • 3.11.03. A WiKi page has been set up for collaborative information regarding the CML language family.
  • 1.11.03. Editorial in Nature Structural Biology - highlighting CML.
  • 21.09.03. The CML1 and CML2 processors in openBabel have been updated to correct various bugs in the CML parsing. OpenBabel 1-100-1 now incorporates these changes which we have compiled into binaries (executables) for Openbabel as follows
    1. MacOS X (10.2 and 10.3)
    2. SGI (Irix 6.5)
    3. Linux (Redhat 8)
    4. Windows (install both babel.exe and cygwin1.dll in same directory).
    5. Examples of CML1 and CML2 are available here, along with the Molfiles they were generated from.
    Openbabel is invoked only from the command line (there is no GUI version). A copy of the cml.cpp module is available here if you wish to compile your own version of openbabel. Please download the versions as of 21.09.03 rather than earlier versions.
  • 14.07.03. The CMLCore schema is updated to version 2.1.1 correcting various validation bugs.
  • 8.07.03. A collection of Scientific Markup languges is described at Robin Cover's Materials Page.
  • 24.05.03. Part 4 of the series on CML is published as: P. Murray-Rust and H. S. Rzepa, "Chemical Markup, XML and the Worldwide Web. CML Schema", J. Chem. Inf. comp. Sci.,, 2003, 757 - 772.
  • 22.11.02. A discussion list for CML, CMLComp (Computational Chemistry Markup Language), STMML and other relatives of this family is available at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cml-discuss
  • 19.11.02. CML will be presented at two invited talks submitted to the Division of Chemical Information for the 225th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, March 23-27, 2003 in New Orleans (from 03-23-2003 to 03-27-2003). The topics will be "Novel Applications of XML in Chemistry" and "The family of XML languages in Chemistry".
  • 19.11.02. A one day workshop at the CLRC (Central Laboratory of the Research Councils, UK) took place as part of the e-science Grid development programme. It will be based on applications of CML and CCML (Computational Chemistry Markup Language) and will take place on 21 November 2002.
  • 17.11.02. The CML2 Core Schema is now available for download. Visit the Schema page for details.
  • 01.07.02: CAS/IUPAC Conference on Chemical Identifiers and XML for Chemistry (July 1, Columbus, Ohio)
    1. Article for Chemistry International
  • 18.04.02: American Chemical Society supports article submissions with CML components
  • 18.04.02: Article about Scientific uses of XML, including CML in Labbook.com
  • 04.02.02: STMML. A Modular XML-Based Markup Language for use in Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishing.
  • 17.01.02: XML in Chemistry: IUPAC CPEP Meeting, Cambridge, January 24-25, 2002:
  • 30.07.01. Two new articles on CML have recently been published;
    1. Chemical Markup, XML and the World-Wide Web. Part II: Information Objects and the CMLDOM. P. Murray-Rust and H. S. Rzepa, J. Chem. Inf. Comp. Sci., 2001, 1113.
    2. Chemical Markup, XML and the World-Wide Web. Part III: Towards a signed semantic Chemical Web of Trust, G. Gkoutos, P. Murray-Rust, H. S. Rzepa and M. Wright, J. Chem. Inf. Comp. Sci., 2001, 1124.
    Reprints are available here or here. The supporting information is located here or here.