Partners

Part. no.	Organisation (name, city, country)	Short description and specific roles in the consortium
1 DKFZ	Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum Heidelberg, Germany Coordinator	FoE: Bioinformatics for glycomics, development of databases, automatic update and annotation, automatic interpretation of MS-Spectra. SR: Project coordinator, management of the consortium, DS2 leader, involved in DS1 and DS3.
2 BCU	Universiteit Utrecht, Faculteit Scheikunde, Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research Utrecht, The Netherlands	FoE: NMR-database, analysis of primary & 3D structures of glycoprotein glycans and polysaccharides, molecular interaction and structure-function relationships. SR: DS1 leader, involved in DS2 and DS4, management of the consortium webpage and virtual communications center
3 SU	Stockholm University Stockholm, Sweden	FoE: NMR-spectroscopy, NMR-prediction tools, primary sequence of carbohydrates SR: DS4 leader, involved in DS1.
4 EMBL- EBI	The European Molecular Biology Laboratory Hingston, United Kingdom	FoE: Annotation and cross-referencing with other data bases, databases development and maintenance SR: involved in DS1 and DS2, host of the central database.
5 ICL	Imperial College London London, United Kingdom	FoE: Glycobiology, glycoproteins, biological mass spectrometry, carbohydrate antigens, parasite antigens SR: DS3 leader, involved in DS1, contact to CFG and HUPO-HGPI
6 UOXF.AL	The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford Oxford, United Kingdom	FoE: Glycoproteomics, glycoimmunology, structural glycobiology, HPLC, enzymatic sequencing, biological mass spectrometry SR: involved in DS1 and DS3
7 UBA	Universität Basel Basel, Switzerland	FoE: NMR spectroscopy, artifical neutral networks, oligo-saccharide synthesis, drug design SR: involved in DS1 and DS4
8 UGI	Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Germany	FoE: Analysis complex carbohydrates using separation techniques and MS SR: involved in DS1 and DS3
9 NIBRT	National Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training	FoE: Glycoproteomics, glycoimmunology, structural glycobiology, HPLC, enzymatic sequencing, biological mass spectrometry SR: involved in DS1 and DS3

FoE: Field of Excellence
SR: Specific Role

Group of Experts

General Concepts

- Jim Paulson, CFG, Scripps, USA
- Naoyuki Taniguchi, Director of HGPI, Osaka, Japan
- Peter Seeberger, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
- Ernst Rietschel, Forschungszentrum Borstel, Germany

Structure / Bioinformatics

- Rahul Raman, CFG Director Bioinformatic Core, MIT, Boston, USA
- Derek Horton, IUPAC, USA
- Minoru Kanehisa, KEGG Bioinformatics Center, Japan
- Serge Perez, CNRS-Cermav, Grenoble, France
- William York, CCRC, University of Georgia

MS, HPLC

- Nicki Packer, Proteome Systems, Sydney, Australia
- David Harvey, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Carlito B. Lebrilla, University of California at Davis, USA
- Jasna Peter-Katalinic, Universität Münster, Germany

NMR

- Lennart Kenne, Upsala, Sweden
- Yury Knirel, Moscow, Russia
- Jesus Jimenez-Barbero J., Madrid, Spain
- Thomas Peters, Lübeck, Germany

EuroCarbDB is a Research Infrastructure Design Study Funded by the 6th Research Framework Program of the European Union
(Contract: RIDS Contract number 011952)