RINGS (Resource For INformatics Of Glycomes at Soka)

RINGS is a web resource providing algorithmic and data mining tools for glycomics analysis.
Many of the tools have been published in the literature; RINGS provides free access to these methods for practical research.
Documentation is provided under the Help menu, especially regarding glycan file formats.
Web services are also available via BioMOBY for programmers interested in incorporating these tools in custom programs.

Tools

DrawRINGS: 2D Java-based glycan structure drawing tool for generating KCF format and/or querying the RINGS database, which current contains the glycan structures from KEGG GLYCAN and GLYCOSCIENCES.de

Glycan Miner Tool: implemented based on Hashimoto et al., 2008 for mining alpha-closed frequent subtrees from a set of glycan structures

Glycan Pathway Predictor (GPP) Tool: implemented based on Krambeck et al., 2005 for dynamically computing the N-glycan biosynthesis pathway from a given glycan structure

Profile PSTMM Tool : implemented based on Aoki-Kinoshita et al., 2006 for generating glycan profiles from glycan structure data which can be entered together with binding affinity data, for example, for a particular biomolecule such as lectins.

Profile Viewer : a useful tool for viewing previously trained profiles using Profile PSTMM.

Utilities

KEGG GLYCAN ID to KCF: retrieve the KCF for a given KEGG GLYCAN ID

KCF to LINUCS: retrieve the LINUCS format given a KCF

LINUCS to KCF: convert a glycan structure in LINUCS format to KCF

GlycoCT to KCF: convert a glycan structure in GlycoCT format to KCF

IUPAC to KCF: convert a glycan structure in IUPAC format to KCF

Documentation

Help: some help files for the tools and utilities provided by RINGS

What's new?: latest updates

Downloads

Last modified: Sep. 24, 2009

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