GlycanBuilder

Introduction

The GlycanBuilder is a visual editor of glycan structures. Multiple structures can be assembled using a symbolic representation of monosaccharides, while the graphical placement of residues is carried out automatically. Various cartoon notations can be employed. All the structural features such as residue conformation, linkage position, substitutions and markers can be specified and displayed.

The GlycanBuilder has been used to create the user interface of GlycoWorkbench?, a tool for the assisted annotation and interpretation of mass spectra of glycans. The GlycanBuilder is also used in the interface of the EUROCarbDB database, to input and search for structures.

In this page you can test the structure builder on-line, draw your structures, compute their masses and export them. The list of export types comprises file formats for the encoding of structures and various graphical formats that can then be opened from the most popular document editors (Word, PowerPoint?...). Just select from the list the format in which you prefer to export the structures and click on the "Get file" button to download the file.

Download and Installation

The latest version of the GlycanBuilder tool is the 1.2.3480. To install the tool, download the ZIP archive and extract its content in a folder of your choice. To run the tool double click on the file GlycanBuilder.jar.

The tool has been tested under Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. In order to run the GlycanBuilder tool, the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) version 5.0 must be installed on the computer. The latest release of JRE 5 can be found on Sun homepage together with the installation guide and system requirements.

The applet necessitate the Java plugin for your current web browser to run. The plugin is installed together with the Java Runtime Environment.