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Sriram Neelamegham1, Kiyoko Aoki-Kinoshita2, Evan Bolton3
1Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering and Medicine, State University of New York, 906 Furnas Hall, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA.
Abstract:
The Symbol Nomenclature for Glycans (SNFG) is a community-curated standard for the depiction of monosaccharides and complex glycans using various colored-coded, geometric shapes, along with defined text additions. It is hosted by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the NCBI-Glycans Page (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/glycans/snfg.html). Several changes have been made to the SNFG page in the past year to update the rules for depicting glycans using the SNFG, to include more examples of use, particularly for non-mammalian organisms, and to provide guidelines for the depiction of ambiguous glycan structures. This Glycoforum article summarizes these recent changes.
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