Functional Glycomics Gateway/ Pathway Interaction Database

Nature Publishing Group (NPG) has launched two new freely-available information resources. The Functional Glycomics Gateway is a collaboration between the Consortium for Functional Glycomics and NPG. It provides news, research data, databases and reagents resulting from the consortium’s activities and is supplemented with an editorial section, updated monthly, of glycobiology research relevant to cell biologists, biochemists, and structural biologists.The second resource, the Pathway Interaction Database is a peer-reviewed collection of information about biomolecular interactions that occur in human cellular signaling pathways. Created in a collaboration between the US National Cancer Institute and NPG, the database is aimed at cell biologists, biochemists, computational biologists and bioinformaticians. It is said to offer a range of intuitive tools.