Controlled Authoring of Biological Experiment Reports

We give a demonstration of an application of XRCE's controlled text authoring system MDA to biological experiment reports. This work is the result of a collaboration between XRCE's Document Content Models team, CNRS's Institut de Biologic Structurale, and Protein'eXpert, a company specialized in biotechnology based in Grenoble. We start with a brief presentation of the partners involved and their respective goals. We then give some technical background on the MDA system. Some novel features of the application are discussed, in particular how MDA can be used for integrating the formalization of an experimental protocol with its associated textual documentation.