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This workbench has been created to function as the main hub of information for those interested in learning Glycoscience, specifically targeting high-school and undergraduate students. Its emphasis extends to exploring the tools and technologies that play a pivotal role in advancing this fascinating yet challenging scientific field. Read more.
Relevant Journals
Journals that publish quality articles on Glycobiology:
Glycobiology, Official Journal of the Society for Glycobiology, published by Oxford Academic. Raed here for its history.
Glycoconjugate Journal, Official Journal of the International Glycoconjugate Organization, published by Springer.
Additionally, Science, Nature, Cell, JBC (a journal of ASBMB), Bioinformatics (a journal of ISCB), regularly publish articles on Glycoscience.
Relevant Societies
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Society for Glycobiology (SFG). This organization, head-office in US, promotes research and education on glycoscience. It also organizes annual meeting. Membership benefits include online subscription to Glycobiology. SFG is a member of FASEB, which is a federation of scientific societies that advances health and well-being by promoting research and education.
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International Carbohydrate Organization (ICO) organizes biennial meeting.
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International Glycoconjugate Organization (IGO) organizes biennial meeting. See its earlier meetings.
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Send an email to glyco-l@list.nih.gov, if you are interested to join the Glycobiology Interest Group.
Calendar of Events
GlycoBioinformatics 2025, BeilsteinGlyco2025 (see the presentations)
SFG 2025 Annual meeting.
For other relevant events
For Health Topics
See most recent CDG meeting, held in San Diego.
Also, see this article published in Nature.
Glycomics Workbench
Based on distributed computing infrastructure, Glycomics workbench is designed as a portal and developed using a combination of Grid technology and Cloud Computing that are supported by High-Performance Computing and various Large Language Models (LLMs) of generative AI for searching and creating reports from the output. Such an infrastructure, termed CHOIS, was developed earlier for childhood obesity surveillance and control by the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH), State of Illinois. The concept of such a workbench was shared earlier in various meetings and as recently as in the SialoGlyco 2024 in Lille, France (1). This proposed workbench is under development to serve the Glyco-Community and other researchers who have interest in Glycobiology related research and education. Unlike the central dogma where the information or code flows from DNA to RNA to Protein, Glyco-code or the code that deciphers the information (human glyco-code consists of a combination of 10 monosaccharides in multiple orders; 2) for a variety of cellular functions including cell signaling are the result of orchestrated functions of a set of glycosyltransferases and glycosidases. A single protein can be decorated by a variety of carbohydrates (syn. Glycans) and a variety of linkages resulting in multiple glycoprotein isoforms of the same protein. Thus, while the total number of human cellular proteins is estimated at about 20000 (3), glycosylation turns those numbers into unaccounted isoforms. Structural identification of those glycoconjugates is tedious and time consuming. Glycome or the glycan related data generated using a variety of analytical techniques are needed for their structural identification. A variety of software tools and databases have been developed for Glycomics (meaning the analysis of these glycoconjugates from glycoproteins, glycolipids and proteoglycans; see, chapter 16 here). Not all are web based making those stand-alone software tools unavailable for use when needed by the Glyco-Community. Glycomics Workbench is designed to provide those tools via C-Grid (4), a community data grid that was developed earlier, which can be utilized by the developers for sharing those tools with the researchers via this website. Moreover, this workbench will serve as a portal providing access to all the relevant web-based resources needed for Glycome research and education. To facilitate this process, this portal will be designed to provide information generated by various LLMs that can benefit the students and researchers learning glycobiology. Educators will also benefit from that information for teaching glycobiology in a class-based or one-to-one set-up. Tools will be made available in this workbench to augment teaching and learnng.
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