WURCS: The Web3 Unique Representation of Carbohydrate Structures
WURCS: The Web3 Unique Representation of Carbohydrate Structures
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DOI：
10.1021/ci400571e
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发表时间：
2014-06-01
影响因子：
5.6
通讯作者：
Narimatsu, Hisashi
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作者：
Tanaka, Kenichi;Aoki-Kinoshita, Kiyoko F.;Narimatsu, Hisashi
近年来，语义Web作为一种有效和高效地链接生命科学数据的手段，已成为生命科学数据库开发的焦点。为了将碳水化合物数据应用于这种新技术，对碳水化合物数据表示有两个要求：（1）如果需要，可以用作URI（统一资源标识符）的线性符号，以及（2）唯一的符号，以便可以区别地表示任何已发布的聚糖结构。后一项要求包括可能将非标准单糖单元表示为聚糖结构的一部分，以及组成、重复单元和不明确的结构，其中键合/键合位置未确定。因此，我们已经开发了Web 3的碳水化合物结构的唯一表示（WURCS）作为一个新的线性符号表示的语义Web的碳水化合物。
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.