Sequence Representation
Owing to the lack of a genetic blue print, carbohydrates do not have a "fixed" sequence. Instead, the sequence is largely determined by the kinetic differences in the enzymes and variations in the biosynthetic micro-environment of the cells.
One of the main constrains in the glycoinformatics is the difficulty of representing sugars in the sequence form especially due to their branching nature.
The sequence of branching information in a carbohydrate molecule is represented in the figure.
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