Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2005

Abstract

The amount of glycomics data being generated is rapidly increasing as a result of improvements in analytical and computational methods. Correlation and analysis of this large, distributed data set requires an extensible and flexible representational standard that is also ‘understood’ by a wide range of software applications. An XML-based data representation standard that faithfully captures essential structural details of a glycan moiety along with additional information (such as data provenance) to aid the interpretation and usage of glycan data, will facilitate the exchange of glycomics data across the scientific community. To meet this need, we introduce GLYcan Data Exchange (GLYDE) standard as an XML-based representation format to enable interoperability and exchange of glycomics data. An online tool (http://128.192.9.86/stargate/formatIndex.jsp) for the conversion of other representations to GLYDE format has been developed.

Comments

This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Carbohydrate Research. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Carbohydrate Research, volume 340, issue 30, December 2005, DOI # 10.1016/j.carres.2005.09.019 .

DOI

10.1016/j.carres.2005.09.019


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