Rapid and continued growth in the generation of glycomic data has revealed the need for enhanced development of basic infrastructure for presenting and interpreting these datasets in a manner that engages the broader biomedical research community. Early in their growth, the genomic and proteomic fields implemented mechanisms for assigning unique gene and protein identifiers that were essential for organizing data presentation and for enhancing bioinformatic approaches to extracting knowledge. Similar unique identifiers are currently absent from glycomic data. In order to facilitate continued growth and expanded accessibility of glycomic data, the authors strongly encourage the glycomics community to coordinate the submission of their glycan structures to the GlyTouCan Repository and to make use of GlyTouCan identifiers in their communications and publications. The authors also deeply encourage journals to recommend a submission workflow in which submitted publications utilize GlyTouCan identifiers as a standard reference for explicitly describing glycan structures cited in manuscripts.

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GlyTouCan：可访问的聚糖结构库

糖蜜数据生成的快速持续增长表明，有必要加强基础基础设施的开发，以便以更广泛的生物医学研究界参与的方式呈现和解释这些数据集。在其成长的早期，基因组学和蛋白质组学领域实施了分配独特的基因和蛋白质标识符的机制，这对于组织数据表示和增强提取信息的生物信息学方法至关重要。糖类数据目前缺少相似的唯一标识符。为了促进糖数据的持续增长和可访问性的扩展，作者强烈鼓励糖组学界协调其聚糖结构向GlyTouCan信息库的提交，并在其通讯和出版物中使用GlyTouCan标识符。作者还深深鼓励期刊推荐一种提交工作流程，其中已提交的出版物使用GlyTouCan标识符作为标准参考，以明确描述手稿中引用的聚糖结构。