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Comment
. 2009 Dec;9(24):5398-9.
doi: 10.1002/pmic.200900708.

Symbol nomenclature for glycan representation

Ajit Varki  1 , Richard D Cummings, Jeffrey D Esko, Hudson H Freeze, Pamela Stanley, Jamey D Marth, Carolyn R Bertozzi, Gerald W Hart, Marilynn E Etzler
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Comment

Symbol nomenclature for glycan representation

Ajit Varki et al. Proteomics. 2009 Dec.

Abstract

The glycan symbol nomenclature proposed by Harvey et al. in these pages has relative advantages and disadvantages. The use of symbols to depict glycans originated from Kornfeld in 1978, was systematized in the First Edition of "Essentials of Glycobiology" and updated for the second edition, with input from relevant organizations such as the Consortium for Functional Glycomics. We also note that >200 illustrations in the second edition have already been published using our nomenclature and are available for download at PubMed.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of Interest: The co-authors are Editors of Essentials of Glycobiology, and we herein promote open access to the book figures at PubMed. However, we do not stand to gain financially from this.

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