There have been some initiatives by independent research groups worldwide, that pushed the development of visual tools to improve some aspects of glycan identification, quantification and visualisation, some of which will be further developed throughout this article.īiological molecules express their function throughout their three-dimensional structures. Increasing numbers of carbohydrate sequences have accumulated throughout extensive work in areas of chemical and biochemical fragmentations followed by analysis using mass spectroscopy, nuclear magnetic resonance, crystallography and computational modelling. The accessibility of this information, coupled with the emergence of new platforms and technologies, has benefitted glycoscience to the point of enabling the detection and high-resolution determination and representation of complex glycans. Indeed, the rise of accessible experiment data has changed the landscape of how research is performed.
One of its current challenges is to keep up and adapt to the increasing levels of data available in the present scientific environment. Glycoscience is a rapidly surfacing and evolving scientific discipline.
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