Download or read book Glycoscience: Chemistry and Chemical Biology I–III written by Bertram O. Fraser-Reid and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 3138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glycostructures play a highly diverse and crucial role in a myriad of organisms and systems in biology, physiology, medicine, and bioengineering and technology. Only in recent years have the tools been developed to partly understand the highly complex functions and chemistry behind them. In this set the editors present up-to-date information on glycostructures, their chemistry and chemical biology, in the form of a comprehensive survey. The text is accompanied by over 2000 figures, chemical structures and reaction schemes and more than 9000 references. The accompanying CD-ROM enables, besides text searches, searches for structures, schemes, and other information.