Crash course in glycoscience (Introduction to glycoinformatics, 1/7)
Channel: SIB - Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Date: 24/06/2020

The video was recorded live during the course “Introduction to glycoinformatics” streamed on 11-12 May 2020.


Often enough the word glycoprotein is used yet the “glyco” part is hardly ever detailed. This is for instance the case with viruses in which surface spiking proteins are abbreviated GP and numbered like HIV GP120, but remain depicted as a smooth fist-like structure. In reality, glycan molecules decorate a broad variety of surface or secreted proteins and the literature is filled with unnoticed references focusing on the “glyco” part. This course is an opportunity to update and extend your knowledge of glycoproteins through the use of bioinformatics resources collectively called “glycoinformatics”. This course had an overview of the challenging questions raised by the study of glycans as non-template driven molecules and the solutions that are currently proposed to store, search, analyse and visualise the effect(s) of protein glycosylation on protein structure, function(s) and interactions.

Target audience: Master students, PhD students, postdocs and other researchers, from any life science environment (academia, facilities, companies, etc.). 



Speaker: Serge Perez, Centre de Recherches sur les Macromolécules Végétales (CERMAV) CNRS, Grenoble, France