Premier Biosoft International has announced the worldwide release of the Enterprise Edition of its glycan and glycopeptide MS/MS data analysis tool, Simglycan.
Users can now set up their own private custom database, and Simglycan will use it to search for glycans and glycopeptides.
The database can be deployed on a local Windows server or on their own PCs.
Glycans that have been found but not yet published can be added to this private database by drawing their structure on Simglycan's drawing canvas.
A numerical representation of the drawing is then submitted to the database, making it easy to construct customised databases.
Users can add to or delete glycan structures from the database, or create their own sub-database for narrowing down their search.
Structural information for multiple glycans can be stored in a single file and added to the database, saving time.
In addition, users have access to all the functionality available in the desktop version of the program; they can predict glycan structures for a given experimental MS profile, draw glycans and compare them with experimental data, annotate mass spectra using cartoons or Domon-Costello nomenclature, or display successive loss of monosaccharide residues on the spectra.
