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BMC Bioinformatics BioMed Central Methodology article Open Access An analysis of extensible modelling for functional genomics data Andrew R Jones* and Norman W Paton Address: School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK Email: Andrew R Jones* - ajones@cs.man.ac.uk; Norman W Paton - norm@cs.man.ac.uk * Corresponding author Published: 27 September 2005 Received: 30 June 2005 Accepted: 27 September 2005 BMC Bioinformatics 2005, 6:235 doi:10.1186/1471-2105-6-235 This article is available from: /1471-2105/6/235 © 2005 Jones and Paton; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Several data formats have been developed for large scale biological experiments, using a variety of methodologies. Most data formats contain a mechanism for allowing extensions to encode unanticipated data types. Extensions to data formats are important because the experimental methodologies tend to be fairly diverse and rapidly evolving, which hinders the creation of formats that will be stable over time. Results: In this paper we review the data formats that exist in functional genomics, some of which have become de facto or de jure standards, with a particular focus on how each