glycome

thumb|A glycome is composed of glycoproteins and [[glycolipids.]]

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Tools used for research on glycome
High-resolution mass spectrometry (MS) and high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)
Multiple Reaction Monitoring (MRM)
Arrays
Metabolic and covalent labeling of glycans
Tools for glycoproteins
See also
Sources and notes
Further reading
External links

thumb|A glycome is composed of glycoproteins and [[glycolipids.]]

A glycome is the entire complement or complete set of all sugars, whether free or chemically bound in more complex molecules, of an organism. An alternative definition is the entirety of carbohydrates in a cell. The glycome may in fact be one of the most complex entities in nature. "Glycomics, analogous to genomics and proteomics, is the systematic study of all glycan structures of a given cell type or organism" and is a subset of glycobiology.

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