This database is aimed at provision of structural, bibliographic, taxonomic and related information on bacterial carbohydrate structures. Two key points of this service are:
The source of data are Carbbank database (University of Georgia, Athens; structures published before 1995, approx. 4000 records) and manual data posting (structures published after 1995, approx. 3000 records).
The scope is "bacterial carbohydrates" and covers nearly all structures of this class published before 2006. Bacterial means that a structure has been found in bacteria or obtained by modification of those found in bacteria. Carohydrate means a structure composed of any residues linked by glycosidic, ester, amidic, ketal, phospho- or sulpho-diester bonds, in which at least one residue is a sugar or its derivative.
Besides the structure itself, each record includes bibliography, abstract, keywords, biological source, methods used to elucidate the structure, bioactivity, NMR assignment tables and a lot of other information. More details, including a format of records, are available at data submission page.
You can search the database by IDs, bibliographic data and keywords, biological source, the fragment of structure and NMR data. The substructure search implies either a query language (expert form) or a structure wizard.
The database is cross-linked with GlycoSCIENCES DB, which includes all the data from Carbbank (not only bacterial). This means you can search the substructure you entered in GlycoSCIENCES DB, and each record, which contains a structure also present in Carbbank, has a cross-link to data from GlycoSCIENCES DB, including NMR spectra.