Glycomics Resources
Browse our lectures, seminars, and tools for various fields and applications of glycomics.
Video Resources from GlycoNet
- Glycobiology, Influenza, and Drug Development (17 min)
Warren Wakarchuk
- Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation (14 min)
Barbara Triggs-Raine, Professor, University of Manitoba - Lysosomal Storage Disease (26 min)
Richard Uwiera & Trina Uwiera, University of Alberta
- Part 1. Introduction – Carbohydrate Chemistry Basics (9 min)
Ryan Snitynsky - Part 2. Nomenclature (12 min) with handout Carbohydrate nomenclature reference guide (PDF)
Ryan Snitynsky - Part 3. Protecting Groups (8 min)
Ryan Snitynsky - Part 4. Modifications to the Carbohydrate Ring (13 min)
Ryan Snitynsky - Part 5. Chemical Glycosylation (15 min)
Ryan Snitynsky - Part 6. Biosynthesis of Carbohydrates & Chemoenzymatic Synthesis (12 min)
Kaitlyn Towle - Part 7. 1D–NMR Analysis of Carbohydrates (11 min)
Kaitlyn Towle - Part 8. 2D-NMR Analysis of Carbohydrates (20 min)
Kaitlyn Towle - Part 9. Mass Spectrometry of Carbohydrates (15 min)
Kaitlyn Towle
- Patents: Maximizing the Value of your Intellectual Property (72 min)
J. David Barrans, Patent agent, cassan maclean - Building a Culture of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Science: Tips, Tools, and Strategies (57 min)
Imogen Coe, Professor, Ryerson University
External Learning Resources
- CAZypedia: The Living Encyclopedia of Carbohydrate-Active Enzymes.
- Essentials of Glycobiology, 3rd Ed.: basic overview of glycobiology
- Glycopedia: virtual chapters on important topics in the field o glycoscience at large
- Getting Started in Cryo-EM
California Institute of Technology - Chemical Glycobiology (47 min)
Carolyn Bertozzi (Berkeley and Howard Hughes Medical Institute) - Imaging the Glycome (58 min)
Carolyn Bertozzi (Berkeley and Howard Hughes Medical Institute) - Glycobiology series (10 videos)
New England Biolabs
- Carbohydrate–Active Enzymes Database (CAZy) describes the families of structurally-related catalytic and carbohydrate-binding modules (or functional domains) of enzymes that degrade, modify, or create glycosidic bonds.
- Glycomics ExPASy provides access to scientific databases and software tools (i.e., resources) in different areas of life sciences including proteomics, genomics, phylogeny, systems biology, population genetics, transcriptomics etc.
- GlyTouCan, a repository that is freely available, uncurated for glycan structures that contain globally unique accession numbers to any glycan independent of the level of information provided by the experimental method used to identify the structure(s).
- UniCarb-DB is one of the largest experimental glycomic MS database and repository in the world
- The Glycophysics Network: forecasting glycoscience with structural tools (France)
- Institute for Glycomics: fighting diseases of global impact (Australia)
- Japan GlycoForum: glycoscience for human well-being (Japan)
- National Center for Functional Glycomics: technology development in the glycosciences with an emphasis on exploring the molecular mechanisms of glycan recognition by proteins important in human biology and disease (US)
- Society for Glycobiology: pursuing and sharing the knowledge of glycan structures and functions among scientists worldwide (US)
- GlycoCore: accelerating the movement of laboratory findings to understand the functions of glycan-binding proteins in disease (Taiwan)
- Complex Carbohydrate Research Center: research on carbohydrates in biomedicine, plants and microbes (US)
Canadian Glycomics Network
E5-33 Gunning/Lemieux Chemistry Centre
University of Alberta, T6G 2G2
Tel: 780-492-6204
Fax: 780-492-4147
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