National Center for Functional Glycomics

The center was established at Emory University in 2013 with $5.5 million funding by National Institutes of Health[1][2][3] under the leadership of Richard D. Cummings.

The center is responsible for services and training for outside investigators, as well as providing access and disseminating technologies, methods and software.

[11] The eventual aim of this approach is to make glycomics accessible by a larger community of scientists by the development of tools which are easily available.

The National Center for Functional Glycomics has developed GlycoPattern, a web-based bioinformatics resource to assist in analysis of glycan array data.

The GlycoPattern website offers tools and algorithms to discover structural motifs, heatmap visualizations for multiple experiment comparisons, clustering of Glycan Binding Proteins.