The GlySpace Alliance: towards a collaborative global glycoinformatics community.

It is known that glycans (variously known as carbohydrates, sugars, saccharides) play crucial roles in almost all known biological processes, and they are a target for biotherapeutics as well as for biofuels and biomaterials. Therefore, the information about these complex carbohydrates is important to organize carefully and to comprehensively integrate with other molecular data in order to understand their pivotal role in biology.