Web-resources for the Carbohydrate Chemist

Loosely based on the article with the same title in Carbohydr. Res. 339 (2004) 929-936 PubMed [15010300]

Other reviews of interest are:
"Bioinformatics in glycobiology", Biochimie 85 (2003) 75-81 PubMed [12765777]
"The Molecular Biology Database Collection: 2004 update." , Nucleic Acid Res. 32 (2004) D3-22 PubMed [14681349]
Databases listed in the latter are available at
www3.oup.co.uk/nar/database/c

1. Web-resources related to the primary structure of carbohydrates

  1. IUPAC-IUBMB Nomenclature of Carbohydrates PubMed [9042704]
    www.chem.qmw.ac.uk/iupac/2carb/
  2. LINUCS LInear Notation for Unique description of Carbohydrate Structure PubMed [11675023]
    www.dkfz-heidelberg.de/spec/linucs/
  3. CCSD - Complex Carbohydrate Structure Database (CarbBank) PubMed [2623761]
    www.boc.chem.uu.nl/sugabase/databases.html
  4. SugaBase PubMed [1473112]
    www.boc.chem.uu.nl/sugabase/databases.html
  5. SweetDB PubMed [11752350]
    www.dkfz-heidelberg.de/spec2/sweetdb/
    links to PubMed, Subito, 3D-structure & Mass data
  6. GlycoBase of USTL
    ustl.univ-lille1.fr/glycobase/

2. Tools for the analysis of NMR and MS

  1. The CCRC Database for Xyloglucan Oligosaccharide NMR Data
    www.ccrc.uga.edu/web/specdb/nmr/xg/xgnmr.html
  2. ECDB - E. coli O-antigen database
    www.casper.organ.su.se/ECDB/
    links to PubMed, CarbBank, CCUG, ATCC
  3. GC-EIMS of Partially Methylated Alditol Acetates
    www.ccrc.uga.edu/web/specdb/ms/pmaa/pframe.html
  4. Specarb - Raman spectra of carbohydrates
    www.models.kvl.dk/users/engelsen/specarb/specarb.html
  5. CASPER - Computer Aided SPectrum Evaluation of Regular polysaccharides PubMed [9691437]
    www.casper.organ.su.se/casper/
  6. GlycoFragments
    www.dkfz-heidelberg.de/spec/projekte/fragments/

3. Conformation of carbohydrates and glycoproteins

  1. PDB - Protein Data Bank PubMed [10592235]
    www.rcsb.org/pdb/
  2. Pdb2Linucs PubMed [15010309]
    www.dkfz-heidelberg.de/spec/pdb2linucs/
  3. HIC-Up PubMed [10089488]
    alpha2.bmc.uu.se/hicup/
  4. Image Library of Biological Macromolecules
    www.imb-jena.de/ImgLibPDB/pages/carb.html
  5. Het-PDB Navi
    daisy.bio.nagoya-u.ac.jp/golab/hetpdbnavi.html
  6. Monosaccharide Database
    www.cermav.cnrs.fr/databank/mono/
  7. Disaccharide Database PubMed [9825523]
    www.cermav.cnrs.fr/databank/disaccharides/
  8. GlycoMaps Database
    www.dkfz-heidelberg.de/spec/glycomaps/
  9. SWEET-II
    www.dkfz-heidelberg.de/spec/sweet2/
  10. Glydict PubMed [11971779]
    www.dkfz-heidelberg.de/spec/glydict/

4. Databases of Enzymes and Lectins

  1. CAZy - Carbohydrate Active enZYmes PubMed [12023867]
    afmb.cnrs-mrs.fr/CAZY/acc.html
    links to NiceZyme (ExPASy), Taxonomy Browser (NBCI), Entrez Nucleotide/Protein (NBCI), TrEMBL (ExPASy), PDB
  2. BPGD - Bacterial Polysaccharide Gene Database
    www.microbio.usyd.edu.au/BPGD/default.htm
  3. 3D Lectin Database
    www.cermav.cnrs.fr/lectines/
    links to Medline, PDB, HSSP, SCOP
  4. A genomics resource for Animal Lectins PubMed [9787635] & PubMed [11425795]
    ctld.glycob.ox.ac.uk/
  5. Torkild's Lectin Page
    plab.ku.dk/tcbh/lectin-links.htm

5. Databases and prediction tools related to glycoproteins

  1. O-GlycBase PubMed [9847232] & PubMed [8594592]
    www.cbs.dtu.dk/databases/OGLYCBASE/
  2. FindMod PubMed [10356335]
    www.expasy.org/tools/findmod/
  3. GlycoMod Tool/GlycanMass PubMed [11680880]
    www.expasy.org/tools/glycomod/
  4. Glypeps - Accurate Mass & Peptide Modification PubMed [11114093]
    www.dkfz-heidelberg.de/spec/glypeps/
  5. NetOGlyc PubMed [8948436]
    www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/NetOGlyc/
  6. DictyOGlyc PubMed [10521537]
    www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/DictyOGlyc/
  7. NetNGlyc
    www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/NetNGlyc/
  8. YinOYang
    www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/YinOYang/
  9. DGPI - Detection/prediction of GPI cleavage site
    129.194.185.165/dgpi/index_en.html
  10. Big-PI Predictor PubMed [10497036]
    mendel.imp.univie.ac.at/sat/gpi/gpi_server.html
  11. CarbDB
    web.mit.edu/glycomics/carb/carbdb.shtml
    Not yet available

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