WURCS: The Web3 Unique Representation of Carbohydrate Structures
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- 作者：Kenichi Tanaka ; Kiyoko F. Aoki-Kinoshita ; Masaaki Kotera ; Hiromichi Sawaki ; Shinichiro Tsuchiya ; Noriaki Fujita ; Toshihide Shikanai ; Masaki Kato ; Shin Kawano ; Issaku Yamada ; Hisashi Narimatsu
- 刊名：Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling
- 出版年：2014
- 出版时间：June 23, 2014
- 年：2014
- 卷：54
- 期：6
- 页码：1558-1566
- 全文大小：569K
- ISSN：1549-960X
文摘
In recent years, the Semantic Web has become the focus of life science database development as a means to link life science data in an effective and efficient manner. In order for carbohydrate data to be applied to this new technology, there are two requirements for carbohydrate data representations: (1) a linear notation which can be used as a URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) if needed and (2) a unique notation such that any published glycan structure can be represented distinctively. This latter requirement includes the possible representation of nonstandard monosaccharide units as a part of the glycan structure, as well as compositions, repeating units, and ambiguous structures where linkages/linkage positions are unidentified. Therefore, we have developed the Web3 Unique Representation of Carbohydrate Structures (WURCS) as a new linear notation for representing carbohydrates for the Semantic Web.