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ReviewGlycobiology2011

Systems glycobiology: biochemical reaction networks regulating glycan structure and function.

Sriram Neelamegham, Gang Liu

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In one paragraph

Review in Glycobiology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
29citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

29 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 50 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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  10. Comparative Glycomics Analysis of Mass Spectrometry Data.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2022
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  13. Zinc Deficiency Disturbs Mucin Expression,International journal of molecular sciences · 2020
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  16. A mechanism for bistability in glycosylation.PLoS computational biology · 2018
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  19. Biological roles of glycans.Glycobiology · 2017
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sriram NeelameghamDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, and The NY State Center for Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA. neel@buffalo.edu
Gang Liu
University at Buffalo, State University of New York · US

Funding

Systems Biology of GlycosylationR01HL103411 · NHLBI · STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO · PI NEELAMEGHAM, SRIRAM · 2011 to 2025
$7.1M
SELECTIN MEDIATED CELL ADHESION UNDER HYDRODYNAMIC SHEARR01HL063014 · NHLBI · STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO · PI NEELAMEGHAM, SRIRAM · 2001 to 2014
$3.0M
NHLBI NIH HHS HL63014NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL063014NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL103411
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There is a growing use of bioinformatics based methods in the field of Glycobiology. These have been used largely to curate glycan structures, organize array-based experimental data and display existing knowledge of glycosylation-related pathways in silico. Although the cataloging of vast amounts of data is beneficial, it is often a challenge to gain meaningful mechanistic insight from this exercise alone. The development of specific analysis tools to query the database is necessary. If these queries can integrate existing knowledge of glycobiology, new insights may be gained. Such queries that couple biochemical knowledge and mathematics have been developed in the field of Systems Biology. The current review summarizes the current state of the art in the application of computational modeling in the field of Glycobiology. It provides (i) an overview of experimental and online resources that can be used to construct glycosylation reaction networks, (ii) mathematical methods to formulate the problem including a description of ordinary differential equation and logic-based reaction networks, (iii) optimization techniques that can be applied to fit experimental data for the purpose of model reconstruction and for evaluating unknown model parameters, (iv) post-simulation analysis methods that yield experimentally testable hypotheses and (v) a summary of available software tools that can be used by non-specialists to perform many of the above functions.

Indexed as

Systems BiologyAnimalsBiochemical PhenomenaCarbohydrate ConformationHumansPolysaccharidesPolysaccharides

Identifiers

PMID21436236
PMCPMC3219416
OpenAlexW2167301307

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