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ArticleNucleic acids research2021

The international glycan repository GlyTouCan version 3.0.

Akihiro Fujita, Nobuyuki P Aoki, Daisuke Shinmachi, Masaaki Matsubara, Shinichiro Tsuchiya, Masaaki Shiota, Tamiko Ono, Issaku Yamada, Kiyoko F Aoki-Kinoshita

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
45citing papers in PubMed
3.8field-weighted citation impact, top 5% 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

45 citing papers in PubMed, 81 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

9 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Akihiro FujitaGraduate School of Science and Engineering, Soka University, Tokyo 192-8577, Japan.
Nobuyuki P AokiGraduate School of Science and Engineering, Soka University, Tokyo 192-8577, Japan.
Daisuke ShinmachiGraduate School of Science and Engineering, Soka University, Tokyo 192-8577, Japan.
Masaaki MatsubaraThe Noguchi Institute, Tokyo 173-0003, Japan.
Shinichiro TsuchiyaThe Noguchi Institute, Tokyo 173-0003, Japan.
Masaaki ShiotaGraduate School of Science and Engineering, Soka University, Tokyo 192-8577, Japan.
Tamiko OnoGraduate School of Science and Engineering, Soka University, Tokyo 192-8577, Japan.
Issaku YamadaThe Noguchi Institute, Tokyo 173-0003, Japan.
Kiyoko F Aoki-KinoshitaGraduate School of Science and Engineering, Soka University, Tokyo 192-8577, Japan.
Soka University · JPNoguchi Institute · JP

Funding

GlyGen Supplement: Develop automatic literature mining tool for extracting context specific glycan-protein data that will enhance the extent and quality of data in GlyGenU01GM125267 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA · PI MAZUMDER, RAJA, TIEMEYER, MICHAEL · 2017 to 2021
$10.2M
NIGMS NIH HHS U01 GM125267
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Glycans serve important roles in signaling events and cell-cell communication, and they are recognized by lectins, viruses and bacteria, playing a variety of roles in many biological processes. However, there was no system to organize the plethora of glycan-related data in the literature. Thus GlyTouCan (https://glytoucan.org) was developed as the international glycan repository, allowing researchers to assign accession numbers to glycans. This also aided in the integration of glycan data across various databases. GlyTouCan assigns accession numbers to glycans which are defined as sets of monosaccharides, which may or may not be characterized with linkage information. GlyTouCan was developed to be able to recognize any level of ambiguity in glycans and uniquely assign accession numbers to each of them, regardless of the input text format. In this manuscript, we describe the latest update to GlyTouCan in version 3.0, its usage, and plans for future development.

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Databases, FactualSoftwareComputational BiologyHumansInternational CooperationInternetPolysaccharidesTerminology as TopicPolysaccharides

Identifiers

PMID33125071
PMCPMC7779025
OpenAlexW3095652813

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