The GlycanBuilder: a fast, intuitive and flexible software tool for building and displaying glycan structures
2007
GlycanBuilder: A Tool for Glycan Structures
publication
Evidence: high
Author Information
Author(s): Ceroni Alessio, Dell Anne, Haslam Stuart M
Primary Institution: Imperial College London
Hypothesis
The GlycanBuilder software tool aims to provide a fast, intuitive, and flexible method for building and displaying glycan structures.
Conclusion
The GlycanBuilder can produce high-quality representations of glycan structures and can be integrated into various applications for glycomic research.
Supporting Evidence
- The GlycanBuilder can be integrated into web pages as a Java applet.
- It can also be used as a web service to render encoded structures into graphical formats.
- The tool is designed to facilitate the input and output of glycan structures in glycomic research.
Takeaway
GlycanBuilder is a computer program that helps scientists create and show complex sugar structures easily, like drawing with special shapes.
Methodology
The GlycanBuilder uses an automatic rendering algorithm to draw glycan structures based on a configurable graphical model.
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