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Glycomics Importance

Glycomics is that the comprehensive study of glycomes(the entire complement of sugars, whether free or present in additional complex molecules of an organism), including genetic, physiologic, pathologic, and other aspects. Glycomics "is the systematic study of all glycan structures of a given cell type or organism" and may be a subset of glycobiology. The term glycomics springs from the chemical prefix for sweetness or a sugar, "glyco-", and was formed to follow the omics naming convention established by genomics (which deals with genes) and proteomics (which deals with proteins). This area of research has got to affect an inherent level of complexity not seen in other areas of applied biology. 68 building blocks (molecules for DNA, RNA and proteins; categories for lipids; sorts of sugar linkages for saccharides) provide the structural basis for the molecular choreography that constitutes the whole lifetime of a cell. DNA and RNA have four building blocks each (the nucleosides or nucleotides). Lipids are divided into eight categories supported ketoacyl and isoprene. Proteins have 20 (the amino acids). Saccharides have 32 sorts of sugar linkages. While these building blocks are often attached only linearly for proteins and genes, they will be arranged during a branched array for saccharides, further increasing the degree of complexity.        

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