<p>This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.</p> <p>One of the vexing problems that besets concurrent use of multiple, heterogeneous resources
is format multiplicity. C<sub>2</sub>M aims to equip scientists with a wrapper generator on their
desktop. The wrapper generator can build wrappers, or converters that can convert data
from or into different formats, from a high-level description of the formats. The language
in which such a high-level description is expressed is easy enough for scientists to be able to
write format descriptions at minimal cost. In C<sub>2</sub>M, wrappers and documentation for
human reading are automatically obtained from the same user-supplied specifications.
Initial experiments demonstrate that the idea can, indeed, lead to the advent of usergoverned
wrapper generators. Future research will consolidate the code and extend the
approach to a realistic variety of formats.</p>
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Comp Funct Genomics. 2001 Dec; 2(6):371-375