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NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
Volume 49, Issue D1, Pages D1529-D1533Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkaa947
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- Database Integration Coordination Program (DICP) of the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)
- National Bioscience Database Center (NBDC) [17934031]
- National Institutes of Health Common Fund [U01-GM125267-01]
- Japan Science and Technology Agency
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Glycans play crucial roles in signaling events and cell-to-cell communication, but organizing the vast amount of related data has been a challenge. GlyTouCan was developed as an international glycan repository to address this issue, providing researchers with a platform to assign accession numbers to glycans.
Glycans serve important roles in signaling events and cell-cell communication, and they are recognized by lectins, viruses and bacteria, playing a variety of roles in many biological processes. However, there was no system to organize the plethora of glycan-related data in the literature. Thus GlyTouCan (https://glytoucan.org) was developed as the international glycan repository, allowing researchers to assign accession numbers to glycans. This also aided in the integration of glycan data across various databases. GlyTouCan assigns accession numbers to glycans which are defined as sets of monosaccharides, which may or may not be characterized with linkage information. GlyTouCan was developed to be able to recognize any level of ambiguity in glycans and uniquely assign accession numbers to each of them, regardless of the input text format. In this manuscript, we describe the latest update to GlyTouCan in version 3.0, its usage, and plans for future development.
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