Agro-Biotech News

Researchers created a new algorithm that allows quick and realistic modeling of sugar chains that are located on the surface of proteins. This will help speed up the development of drugs and vaccines. More than 75% of proteins located at our cell's surface are covered by sugar chains known as glycans. Glycans are very mobile, which makes the structural elucidation of glycoproteins difficult. Hundreds of thousands of computing hours may be necessary to model glycosylated proteins.