Table 1.
Major carbohydrate structure databases and the sequence formats used
| Database | Encoding | URL |
|---|---|---|
| GlycomeDB [89] | GlycoCT [59] | http://www.glycome-db.org/ |
| EUROCarbDBa | GlycoCT [59] | http://www.ebi.ac.uk/eurocarb/ |
| CarbBanka [52] | IUPAC extended [90] | http://www.boc.chem.uu.nl/sugabase/carbbank.html |
| KEGGa [83] | KCF [91] | http://www.genome.jp/kegg/glycan/ |
| GLYCOSCIENCES.dea [82] | LINUCS [92] | http://www.glycosciences.de/ |
| CFGa [84] | Glycominds Linear Code® [47] | http://www.functionalglycomics.org/ |
| BCSDBa [93] | BCSDB linear code | http://www.glyco.ac.ru/bcsdb3/ |
| GlycoSuiteDB [87] | IUPAC condensed [94] | http://glycosuitedb.expasy.org/ |
| GlycoBase (Dublin)a [86] | Motif based | http://glycobase.ucd.ie/ |
| GlycoBase (Lille)a [95] | Linkage path | http://glycobase.univ-lille1.fr/base/ |
| JCGGDB [96] | CabosML [97] | http://jcggdb.jp/ |
aCurrently queried by GlycomeDB