Fig 1. Glycan CFG encoding and graph encoding.

On the left hand side a glycan structure encoded with CFG nomenclature is presented, while the right hand side shows the same structure translated into a graph. Each monosaccharide or substituent becomes a node and each glycosidic bond becomes an edge in the graph. Avoiding any loss of information all the properties of each monosaccharide or substituent are converted in node properties whereas glycosidic bond properties are translated in edge properties. To be more clear the colour code associate with the monosaccharide type is preserved among the images.