Overview

The GlyCosmos Portal is a Web portal aiming to integrate the glycosciences with the life sciences.
It consists of Standards, Repositories and Data Resources, providing information about genes, proteins, lipids, pathways and diseases.
GlyCosmos has been recognized as the official portal of the Japanese Society for Carbohydrate Research.

Contents

Standards
Repositories
Data Resources
International Collaboration
Steering Committee

Standards

WURCS

A text representation for glycan structures aimed for use in the Semantic Web.

GlycoRDF

A standard ontology for RDFizing glycomics data (glycan structures, publications, experimental data, and source).

GlycoCoO

A standard ontology for RDFizing glycoconjugate data (glycoproteins/glycolipids, glycan abundance ratios, sample information, diseases, publication information, etc.)

Repositories

The glycan structure repository GlyTouCan

assigning accession numbers to glycans

The Glycoconjugate repository GlyComb (TBA)

will assign accession numbers to glycoconjugates such as glycoproteins, glycolipids.

The glyco(proteo)mics repository GlycoPOST

stores mass spectrometry data obtained from glyco(proteo)mics related experiments.

Data Resources

All data in GlyCosmos are stored using Semantic Web technologies, enabling easier integration with life science data.

International Collaboration

GlySpace Alliance

GlyCosmos is a member of the GlySpace Alliance together with GlyGen and Glycomics@ExPASy.

Japanese Society of Carbohydrate Research Glycoscience Portal GlyCosmos Steering Committee

Name	Affiliation	Position
Kiyoko F. Aoki-Kinoshita	Soka University	Professor (Committee Chair)
Osamu Kanie	Tokai University	Professor
Toshisuke Kawasaki	Ritsumeikan University	Senior Researcher
Tadashi Suzuki	RIKEN	Senior Researcher
Kiichiro Totani	Seikei University	Professor
Hiroshi Nakata	Kyoto Sangyo University	Professor
Shunji Natsuka	Niigata University	Professor
Shoko Nishihara	Soka University	Professor
Yoshiki Yamaguchi	Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University	Professor
Katsuko Yamashita	Yokohama City University	Visiting Professor
Issaku Yamada	The Noguchi Institute	Researcher

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Supported by National Bioscience Database Center (NBDC) of Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST).

Partly supported by NIH Common Fund.
Grant # 1U01GM125267-01