DS1-D1: Experimental techniques for biological data collections in glycomics and digital descriptions used for the representation of carbohydrate structures
DS1-SUB1: Survey structural complexity of carbohydrates and their profiles of occurrence in various tissues, species and cells
DS1-D2: Recommendations for the encoding of glycan structures and the
documentation of experiments in glycomics projects. Formulation of guidelines describing the data, which should preferably enter into database
Proposal: Glyco-CT Format
DS1-SUB3: Guidelines how to encode biological data
DS1-D3: Creation of a central depository for carbohydrate registry numbers
DS2-D1: Concept and implementation plan P2P-network, the central database and storage facilities
DS2-D2: Implementation of P2P-network and central database
DS2-SUB2: Recommendation for a concept of a digital cell-by-cell catalogue of
glycan structures and glycosyltransferases
DS3-D1: Experimental and digital standards for MS spectra and HPLC
DS3-D2: Implementation plan of procedures for automatic inclusion of experimental data and automatic interpretation of MS-spectra and HPLC profile
DS3-D3: Implementation of procedures for automatic inclusion of MS-spectra and HPLC profiles into the P2P network
DS4-D1: Guidelines for a uniform description of NMR spectra
DS4-D2: Quality measures for NMR-spectra
DS4-D3: Algorithms for automatic NMR-spectra interpretation
EuroCarbDB is a Research Infrastructure Design Study
Funded by the 6th Research Framework Program of the European Union
(Contract: RIDS Contract number 011952)
