Updates to the Symbol Nomenclature for Glycans guidelines

Sriram Neelamegham; Kiyoko Aoki-Kinoshita; Evan Bolton; Martin Frank; Frederique Lisacek; Thomas Lütteke; Noel O'Boyle; Nicolle H Packer; Pamela Stanley; Philip Toukach; Ajit Varki; Robert J Woods; SNFG Discussion Group

doi:10.1093/glycob/cwz045

Updates to the Symbol Nomenclature for Glycans guidelines

Glycobiology. 2019 Aug 20;29(9):620-624. doi: 10.1093/glycob/cwz045.

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¹ Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering and Medicine, State University of New York, 906 Furnas Hall, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA.
² Glycan & Life System Integration Center (GaLSIC), Faculty of Science and Engineering, Soka University, 1-236 Tangi-machi, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-8577, Japan.
³ National Library of Medicine, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bldg. 38A, Room 8S810, Bethesda, MD 20896, USA.
⁴ Biognos AB, Generatorsgatan 1 / Box 8963, 402 74 Göteborg, Sweden.
⁵ Proteome Informatics Group, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Computer Science Department, University of Geneva, route de Drize 7, CH - 1227 Geneva Switzerland, and also Section of Biology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
⁶ GIP GmbH, Strahlenberger Str. 112, 63067 Offenbach, Germany.
⁷ NextMove Software, Innovation Centre, Cambridge Science Park, Milton Road, Cambridge, CB4 0EY, UK.
⁸ Department of Molecular Sciences, Faculty of Science & Engineering, Rm 307, Building E8C, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia.
⁹ Department of Cell Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Ave, New York, NY, 10461, USA.
¹⁰ Laboratory of Carbohydrate Chemistry, Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences. 119991 Moscow, Leninsky prospect 47, Russia.
¹¹ Glycobiology Research and Training Center, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
¹² Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, 315 Riverbend Rd, Athens, GA, 30602, 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.

Keywords: database; glycobiology; glycoscience; software; symbol nomenclature.

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Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Animals
Internet
National Library of Medicine (U.S.) / organization & administration*
Polysaccharides / chemistry*
Polysaccharides / classification
Terminology as Topic*
United States

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Polysaccharides

Updates to the Symbol Nomenclature for Glycans guidelines

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