May 15, 2015
November 5, 2019 (Last Updated)

Querying Structures

By Nobuyuki Aoki

    Reviewed by Kiyoko Kinoshita

Note: The previous page may have more information regarding this series.


Graphical Interface

To search registered glycans with a specific structural fragment, it is possible to build through a graphical interface as shown in the figure. The tool used is based on the work done for GlycanBuilder with Vaadin as described in

Damerell D, Ceroni A, Maass K, Ranzinger R, Dell A, Haslam SM. The GlycanBuilder and GlycoWorkbench glycoinformatics tools: updates and new developments. Biol Chem. 2012;393:1357–1362. PubMed.

It is possible to create or extend from existing structures within this interface.


Glytoucan Graphical Interface

Note: User registration is not required to query for a structure.


Once the structure is complete, a sequence is generated from the input and send to GlyCosmos text search interface.


Glycosmos Text Search Interface


Click the search button to perform a complete match search. As a result, the image of the matched glycan structure and the accession number are displayed.


Glytoucan Graphical Interface Results

Note: The search result can be download as a CSV file.





If you would like to know more, please feel free to read the next page in this series.


About the author

Nobuyuki Aoki is a Systems Engineer/Consultant at SparqLite LLC. Technical architect, Random Programmer, and Official Plant Watcher of the glycan repository project.