Publications by authors named "Yukie Akune-Taylor"
Article Synopsis
- The Human Glycome Atlas (HGA) Project, initiated in April 2023 by three Japanese institutions, aims to create a comprehensive knowledgebase of human glycans and glycoproteins.
- This project is significant as it marks the first life sciences initiative supported by Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) under a Large-scale Academic Frontiers Promotion Project.
- Over its ten-year span, the HGA plans to analyze 20,000 blood samples and establish a resource (TOHSA) that will integrate glycan data with other omics and disease-related information.
Glycans participate in a vast number of recognition systems in diverse organisms in health and in disease. However, glycans cannot be sequenced because there is no sequencer technology that can fully characterize them. There is no "template" for replicating glycans as there are for amino acids and nucleic acids.
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