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Bioinformatics Resources for the Study of Glycan-Mediated Protein Interactions
Published on: January 20, 2022
Bridging glycoinformatics and cheminformatics: integration efforts between GlyCosmos and PubChem
Tiejun Cheng1, Tamiko Ono2, Masaaki Shiota2
1National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, United States.
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The GlyCosmos Glycoscience Portal (https://glycosmos.org) and PubChem (https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/) are major portals for glycoscience and chemistry, respectively. GlyCosmos is a portal for glycan-related repositories, including GlyTouCan, GlycoPOST, and UniCarb-DR, as well as for glycan-related data resources that have been integrated from a variety of 'omics databases. Glycogenes, glycoproteins, lectins, pathways, and disease information related to glycans are accessible from GlyCosmos. PubChem, on the other hand, is a chemistry-based portal at the National Center for Biotechnology Information. PubChem provides information not only on chemicals, but also genes, proteins, pathways, as well as patents, bioassays, and more, from hundreds of data resources from around the world. In this work, these 2 portals have made substantial efforts to integrate their complementary data to allow users to cross between these 2 domains. In addition to glycan structures, key information, such as glycan-related genes, relevant diseases, glycoproteins, and pathways, was integrated and cross-linked with one another. The interfaces were designed to enable users to easily find, access, download, and reuse data of interest across these resources. Use cases are described illustrating and highlighting the type of content that can be investigated. In total, these integrations provide life science researchers improved awareness and enhanced access to glycan-related information.
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