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Glycoinformatics: Overview

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Glycoscience: Biology and Medicine

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Because of the many different glycan-related databases now publicly available, a number of different glycan structure representations are used to graphically and textually display glycans structures. This overview provides an easy reference to each representation format as well as links to several major databases and web resources that may be useful for glycobiologists. Many of the major databases, glycan sequence and structure representation formats, and tools that are currently available and used in the glycoscience field will be described. The purpose of this chapter is to provide background knowledge for beginners and to provide any supporting information for the other chapters in this section.

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  1. Department of Bioinformatics, Faculty of Engineering, Soka University, 1-236 Tangi-machi, Tokyo, 192-8577, Japan

    Kiyoko F. Aoki-Kinoshita

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  1. Systems Glycobiology Research Group, RIKEN-Max Planck Joint Research Center for Systems Chemical Biology, Wako, Saitama, Japan

    Naoyuki Taniguchi

  2. Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, Tokyo Metropolitan Geriatric Hospital and Institute of Gerontology, Tokyo, Japan

    Tamao Endo

  3. Department of Biological Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

    Gerald W. Hart

  4. Department of Biomolecular Systems, Max-Planck-Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany

    Peter H. Seeberger

  5. Academica Sinica, NanKang, T´ai-pei, Taiwan

    Chi-Huey Wong

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Aoki-Kinoshita, K.F. (2015). Glycoinformatics: Overview. In: Taniguchi, N., Endo, T., Hart, G., Seeberger, P., Wong, CH. (eds) Glycoscience: Biology and Medicine. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54841-6_17

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