Toward integration of glycan chemical databases: an algorithm and software tool for extracting sugars from chemical structures.

ABSTRACT: Integration of glycan-related databases between different research fields is essential in glycoscience. It requires knowledge across the breadth of science because most glycans exist as glycoconjugates. On the other hand, especially between chemistry and biology, glycan data has not been easy to integrate due to the huge variety of glycan structure representations. We have developed WURCS (Web 3.0 Unique Representation of Carbohydrate Structures) as a notation for representing all glycan structures uniquely for the purpose of integrating data across scientific data resources. While the integration of glycan data in the field of biology has been greatly advanced, in the field of chemistry, progress has been hampered due to the lack of appropriate rules to extract sugars from chemical struct

SUBMITTER: Matsubara M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11782307 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature