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

Prefix

glytoucan

Alternative Prefixes

glygen

Keywords

glycomics structural biology

Links

Homepage

Contact

René Ranzinger   0000-0003-3147-448X   ReneRanzinger

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local 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

Publications

• https://bioregistry.io/pubmed:31616925
• 2017 GlyTouCan: an accessible glycan structure repository
• 2015 GlyTouCan 1.0--The international glycan structure repository

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.

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 8 mappings to external registries for this resource with 5 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. 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.