Figure 6

Workflow for analyzing glyco-gene-related diseases. In the first step of this workflow, GlycoEpitope DB entries are searched for disease-related keywords by a newly developed BioMoby service called getGlycoEpitopeIDfromKeyword. The identifiers of matching entries are then used to retrieve glycan structures in IUPAC format by another newly developed BioMoby service called getIUPACfromGlycoEpitopeID. The resulting IUPAC glycans are subsequently converted to KCF format by a new RINGS service called getKCFfromIUPAC. The KCF glycans can then be used for querying other RINGS data mining services.