Citation: i. Symbol Nomenclature for Graphical Representation of Glycans, Glycobiology 25: 1323-1324, 2015. Citation link (PMID 26543186). ii. Updates to the Symbol Nomenclature for Glycans guidelines, Glycobiology 29: 620-624, 2019. Citation link (PMID 31184695)

A universal symbol nomenclature for the graphical representation of glycan structures was proposed¹ in 2015 to facilitate the standardization of how glycans are visually depicted, and is used throughout this book. The Symbol Nomenclature for Glycans was developed as a collaboration amongst the editors of this book, and an extended community advisory group. The nomenclature will now undergo periodic updates at a separate NCBI Page. These advancements are managed by Sriram Neelamegham (ude.olaffub@leen) and the SNFG Discussion group. The most recent version of the SNFG can be found here.

See also:

Glycans at NCBI

History of the SNFG

Organizations and Publications Adopting SNFG

Software tools supporting SNFG

Footnotes

¹

Varki A, Cummings RD, Aebi M, Packer NH, Seeberger PH, Esko JD, Stanley P, Hart G, Darvill A, Kinoshita T, Prestegard JJ, Schnaar RL, et al. 2015. Symbol nomenclature for graphical representations of glycans. Glycobiology 25: 1323–1324. (PMID 26543186). Neelamegham, S., Aoki-Kinoshita, K., Bolton, E., Frank, M., Lisacek, F., Lütteke, T., O’Boyle, N., Packer, N.H., Stanley, P., Toukach, P., Varki, A., Woods, R.J., SNFG Discussion Group. Updates to the Symbol Nomenclature for Glycans guidelines. Glycobiology 29: 620-624. (PMID 31184695)