Adenine, named after the nucleic acid adenine, is a script language, which is developed in the context of the Haystack project and the Oxygen project of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) in collaboration with NTT.

A substantial characteristic of Adenine is that this language possesses native support for the RDF. The language constructs of Adenine are derived from Python and LISP.

The language is written in RDF and thus also can be represented and written with RDF based Syntaxes such as N3. Also, as well as RDF, Adenine can be extended. The data type system corresponds to the data type system from RDF and XML Schema, and can be extended. As a script language, Adenine is platform independent.

[edit] External links

• Adenine-Tutorial
• Adenine: A Metadata Programming LanguagePDF (17.3 KB) - Overview of Adenine
• Metadata Programming in Adenine (Draft)PDF - More detailed explanation of Adenine and its usage.
• Adenine page at IFCX.org