Enhancing the interoperability of glycan data flow between ChEBI, PubChem and GlyGen.

Glycans play a vital role in health, disease, bioenergy, biomaterials and bio-therapeutics. As a result, there is keen interest to identify and increase glycan data in bioinformatics databases like ChEBI and PubChem, and connecting them to resources at the EMBL-EBI and NCBI to facilitate access to important annotations at a global level. GlyTouCan is a comprehensive archival database that contains glycans obtained primarily through batch upload from glycan repositories, glycoprotein databases and individual laboratories.