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Revisiting the Language of Glycoscience: Readers, Writers and Erasers in Carbohydrate Biochemistry
Author(s) -
Dedola Simone,
Rugen Michael D.,
Young Robert J.,
Field Robert A.
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
chembiochem
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.05
H-Index - 126
eISSN - 1439-7633
pISSN - 1439-4227
DOI - 10.1002/cbic.201900377
Subject(s) - function (biology) , computational biology , computer science , biology , evolutionary biology
Abstract The roles of carbohydrates in nature are many and varied. However, the lack of template encoding in glycoscience distances carbohydrate structure, and hence function, from gene sequence. This challenging situation is compounded by descriptors of carbohydrate structure and function that have tended to emphasise their complexity. Herein, we suggest that revising the language of glycoscience could make interdisciplinary discourse more accessible to all interested parties.