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 Packer , Pamela Stanley , Philip Toukach , Ajit Varki , Robert Woods , Noel O’boyle , Alan Darvill , Anne Dell , Bernard Henrissat (1) , Carolyn Bertozzi , Gerald Hart , Hisashi Narimatsu , Hudson Freeze , Issaku Yamada , James Paulson , James Prestegard , Jamey Marth , J Vliegenthart , Marilynn Etzler , Markus Aebi , Minoru Kanehisa , Naoyuki Taniguchi , Nathan Edwards , Pauline Rudd , Peter Seeberger , Raja Mazumder , Rene Ranzinger , Richard Cummings , Ronald Schnaar , Serge Perez , Stuart Kornfeld , Taroh Kinoshita , William York , Yuriy Knirel

1 AFMB - Architecture et fonction des macromolécules biologiques

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

Domains: Life Sciences [q-bio]

Sriram Neelamegham, Kiyoko Aoki-Kinoshita, Evan Bolton, Martin Frank, Frederique Lisacek, et al.. Updates to the Symbol Nomenclature for Glycans guidelines. Glycobiology, 2019, 29 (9), pp.620-624. ⟨10.1093/glycob/cwz045⟩. ⟨hal-03593886⟩