Carbohydrate Structure Database (CSDB): Examples of Usage

The main goals of glycoscience are elucidation of carbohydrate features responsible for cellular processes, pathogenicity of microorganisms, and immunological properties of higher organisms, as well as application of glycans as diagnostic and therapeutic agents and classification of natural glycans and glycoconjugates. These goals are hardly achievable without freely available, regularly updated, and cross-linked databases, which provide data accumulated in glycoscience and allow tracking of their quality.