Glycobiology & Glycochemistry

Glycoconjugates, Glycomics and Transcriptomics

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Glycomics is a discipline in genetics that applies recombinant DNA, DNA sequencing methods and bioinformatics to sequence, assemble and analyze the function and structure of glycans along with the genomes. Transcriptomics is a relatively young branch of omics science concerned with the systematic study of the chemical products or metabolites that cells and organisms generate. Indeed, most human metabolomic studies published today, even those exploiting the latest and most sensitive LC-MS/MS technologies, typically succeed in identifying or characterizing fewer than 100 compounds. This corresponds to less than 1% of the known human metabolome.