GlyTouCan is the single worldwide registry of glycan (carbohydrate sugar chain) data.

Prefix

glytoucan

Alternative Prefixes

glygen

Keywords

carbohydrate chemical structure expression glycan glycobiology glycoconjugate glycoinformatics glycomics glycoprotein glycoscience glycosylated residue glycosylation health/disease interaction/pathway life science portal protein sequence

License

CC0-1.0

Links

Homepage

Publications

2019 GlyGen: Computational and Informatics Resources for Glycoscience

2017 GlyTouCan: an accessible glycan structure repository

2015 GlyTouCan 1.0--The international glycan structure repository

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local unique identifiers in GlyTouCan should match this regular expression:
^G[0-9]{5}[A-Z]{2}$

Example Local Unique Identifier

G00054MO   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from GlyTouCan should match this regular expression:
^glytoucan:G[0-9]{5}[A-Z]{2}$

Example CURIE

glytoucan:G00054MO

Contact

René Ranzinger   0000-0003-3147-448X   ReneRanzinger

Identifier Space Owner

Soka University, Hachioji, Tokyo

A summary of the relations in the Bioregistry schema can be found here.

Has incoming URI collisions

The following resources share a URI format string with glytoucan:
glycomedb

When generating an extended prefix map, their respective CURIE prefixes and URI prefixes are merged into the record for glytoucan. If you believe that these are distinct semantic spaces and should not be merged, please open a new issue on the Bioregistry issue tracker for discussion.

Mappings from records in Bioregistry to external registries comprises the metaregistry. This resource has 7 mappings to external registries with 4 unique external prefixes.

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier G00054MO is used to demonstrate the providers available for GlyTouCan. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Additional providers curated in the Bioregistry are listed here. These are typically inherited from Identifiers.org or Prefix Commons, and need extra curation.