Fig. 1From: CyBy2: a strongly typed, purely functional framework for chemical data managementData Model. This simplified UML diagram shows an excerpt of the data model. Here we see how compounds together with linked files and containers actually form a heterogeneous data tree linked to objects from other “tables” like projects and assays. While it is possible to map these kinds of data graphs to tables in a relational database, we consider tree shaped data formats like JSON or XML to be better suited for this taskBack to article page