Table I.
SNFG compliant and actively maintained glycan databasesa
| Name | Link | Contents | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asian Community of Glycoscience and Glycotechnology | acgg.asia/db/ | Includes glycan disease, glycogene, lectin frontier and curated protocols developed by the Japanese Consortium for Glycobiology and Glycotechnology and other collaborators | Maeda et al. (2015) |
| Consortium for Functional Glycomics Gateway | www.functionalglycomics.org | Glycan array, Glycan mass spectrometry profiling, glycogene microarray and mouse phenotyping data repository | Raman et al. (2006) |
| Carbohydrate Structure Database (CSDB) | csdb.glycoscience.ru/database | Manually curated bacterial, plant and fungal carbohydrate structure database | Toukach and Egorova (2016) |
| CSDB_GT (CSDB Glycosyltransferases) | csdb.glycoscience.ru/gt.html | Manually curated database of glycosyltrasferases with confirmed activity (in 2019, of Escherichia coli and Arabidopsis thaliana) | Egorova et al. (2019) |
| GLYCAM-Web | Glycam.org | Tools for predicting 3D structures of carbohydrates, glycoproteins and carbohydrate–protein structures | Kirschner et al. (2008) |
| GLYCOSCIENCES.de | glycosciences.de | Various tools and databases for glycobiology, with focus on 3D structures and references to related PDB entries | Bohm et al. (2019) |
| Glycostore | glycostore.org | Glycan chromatographic retention properties | Zhao et al. (2018) |
| Glyco3D | glyco3d.cermav.cnrs.fr/home.php | Family of databases covering the 3D features of mono-, poly- and oligo-saccharides, glycosyltransferases and lectins and glycosaminoglycan-binding proteins | Perez et al. (2015) |
| Glycomics@ExPASy | www.expasy.org/glycomics | Various glycomics tools developed at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and links to other sites | Mariethoz et al. (2018) |
| GlyCosmos | glycosmos.org | Portal for glycoscience data resources and repositories | … |
| GlyGen | www.glygen.org | Computational and Informatics Resources for Glycoscience research | … |
| GlyTouCan | glytoucan.org | International glycan structure repository | Tiemeyer et al. (2017) |
| KEGG GLYCANb | www.genome.jp/kegg/glycan/ | Glycan structures, relevant reactions and pathways | Kanehisa (2017) |
| MatrixDB | matrixdb.univ-lyon1.fr/ | Database of extracellular matrix protein, proteoglycan and polysaccharide interactions | Clerc et al. (2019) |
| MonosaccharideDB | monosaccharidedb.org | Monosaccharide database | |
| SugarBindDB | sugarbind.expasy.org | Pathogen Sugar-Binding Database | Mariethoz et al. (2016) |
| UniCarb-DB | unicarb-db.expasy.org | Glycomics mass spectrometry database | Campbell et al. (2014) |
a
Note: aTable only lists databases that follow a majority of the SNFG nomenclature guidelines, not all glycoscience resources.
bSNFG adoption in progress.