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Glycobiology, glycomics, and (bio)informatics / Claus-Wilhelm von der Lieth -- Introduction to carbohydrate structure and diversity / Stephan Herget ... [et al.] -- Digital representations of oligo- and polysaccharides / Stephan Herget and Claus-Wilhelm von der Lieth -- Evolutionary considerations in studying the sialome : sialic acids and the host-pathogen interface / Amanda L. Lewis and Ajit Varki -- Carbohydrate-active enzymes database : principles and classification of glycosyltransferases / Pedro M. Coutinho ... [et al.] -- Other databases providing glycoenzyme data / Thomas L(uml)utteke and Claus-Wilhelm von der Lieth -- Bioinformatics analysis of glycan structures from a genomic perspective / Kiyoko F. Aoki-Kinoshita and Minoru Kanehisa -- Glycosylation of proteins / Claus-Wilhelm von der Lieth and Thomas L(uml)utteke -- Prediction of glycosylation sites in proteins / Karin Julenius ... [et al.] -- Experimental methods for the analysis of glycans and their bioinformatics requirements / Claus-Wilhelm von der Lieth -- Analysis of N- and O-glycans of glycoproteins by HPLC technology / Anthony H. Merry and Sviatlana A. Astrautsova -- Glycomic mass spectrometric analysis and data interpretation tools / Niclas G. Karlsson and Nicolle H. Packer -- Software tools for semi-automatic interpretation of mass spectra of glycans / Kai Maass and Alessio Ceroni -- Informatics concepts to decode structure-function relationships of glycosaminoglycans / Rahul Raman, S. Raguram and Ram Sasisekharan -- NMR databases and tools for automatic interpretation of spectra of carbohydrates / Claus-Wilhelm von der Lieth -- Automatic spectrum interpretation based on increment rules : CASPER / Roland Stenutz -- Interpretation of (esc)p13(esc)sC NMR spectra by artificial neural network techniques (NeuroCarb) / Andreas Stoeckli ... [et al.] -- Conformational analysis of carbohydrates : a historical overview / Martin Frank -- Predicting carbohydrate 3D structures using theoretical methods / Martin Frank -- Synergy of computational and experimental methods in carbohydrate 3D structure determination and validation / Thomas L(uml)utteke and Martin Frank -- Structural features of lectins and their binding sites / Remy Loris --Statistical analysis of protein-carbohydrate complexes contained in the PDB / Thomas L(uml)utteke and Claus-Wilhelm von der Lieth.