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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Oct 13.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Opin Struct Biol. 2016 Oct 13;40:145–152. doi: 10.1016/j.sbi.2016.09.013

Table I.

Databases for the Glycosciences*

Level Description and unique feature Website
Glycan entries GlyTouCan glytoucan.org
UnicarbKB unicarbkb.org

Enzyme data CAZY (Carbohydrate-Active Enzyme) www.cazy.org
IUBMB ExploreEnz database enzyme-database.org
BRENDA (Comoprehensive enzyme info. system) brenda-enzymes.org

Transcript Glycogene microarray data - for human/mouse samples (CFG) www.functionalglycomics.org
Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO)- functional genomics repository www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo

Glycomics/Glycoproteomics GlycoBase glycobase.nibrt.ie
UniCarb-KB www.unicarbkb.org
CFG MALDI-TOF/TOF datasets www.functionalglycomics.org

Glycan binding data CFG glycan array entries www.functionalglycomics.org
LfDB (Lectin Frontier Database) & GlycoEpitope jcggdb.jp/index_en.html

Pathway KEGG GLYCAN www.genome.jp/kegg/glycan
*

This table only lists relational databases that would be useful for computational modeling of cellular glycosylation biosynthetic pathways. For a more comprehensive list of all glycan-related databases, please see ref. [9].