TY - JOUR AU - Ceroni, Alessio AU - Dell, Anne AU - Haslam, Stuart M. PY - 2007 DA - 2007/08/07 TI - The GlycanBuilder: a fast, intuitive and flexible software tool for building and displaying glycan structures JO - Source Code for Biology and Medicine SP - 3 VL - 2 IS - 1 AB - Carbohydrates play a critical role in human diseases and their potential utility as biomarkers for pathological conditions is a major driver for characterization of the glycome. However, the additional complexity of glycans compared to proteins and nucleic acids has slowed the advancement of glycomics in comparison to genomics and proteomics. The branched nature of carbohydrates, the great diversity of their constituents and the numerous alternative symbolic notations, make the input and display of glycans not as straightforward as for example the amino-acid sequence of a protein. Every glycoinformatic tool providing a user interface would benefit from a fast, intuitive, appealing mechanism for input and output of glycan structures in a computer readable format. SN - 1751-0473 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1751-0473-2-3 DO - 10.1186/1751-0473-2-3 ID - Ceroni2007 ER -