BioC
    
            
                
                    We describe a simple XML format to share text documents and annotation
                
            
             
            
             
            
        
            A minimalist approach to share text documents and data annotations. Allows a large number of different annotations to be represented. 
Project files contain: 
- simple code to hold/read/write data and perform sample processing.
- BioC-formatted corpora
- BioC tools that work with BioC corpora
BioC goals
- simplicity
- interoperability
- broad use
- reuse
There should be little investment required to learn to use a format or a software module to process that format. We...