The Human Glycome Atlas project for cataloging all glycan-related omics data in human
Kiyoko F. Aoki‐Kinoshita, Yukie Akune-Taylor, Hiromune Ando, Kiyohiko Angata, Morihisa Fujita, Jun‐ichi Furukawa, Hiroyuki Kaji, Koichi Kato, Ken Kitajima, Yasuhiko Kizuka, Yusuke Matsui, Kazuki Nakajima, Shoko Nishihara, Tetsuya Okajima, Kazuma Sakamoto, Chihiro Sato, Morten Thaysen‐Andersen, Akira Togayachi, Hirokazu Yagi, Achille Zappa, Kenji Kadomatsu
Abstract
The Human Glycome Atlas (HGA) Project was launched in April 2023, spearheaded by three Japanese institutes: the Tokai National Higher Education and Research System, the National Institutes of Natural Sciences, and Soka University. This was the first time that a field in the life sciences was adopted by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) for a Large-scale Academic Frontiers Promotion Project. This project aims to construct a knowledgebase of human glycans and glycoproteins as a standard for the human glycome. A high-throughput pipeline for comprehensively analyzing 20,000 blood samples in its first five years is planned, at which time an access-controlled version of a human glycomics knowledgebase, called TOHSA, will be released. By the end of the final tenth year, TOHSA will provide a central resource linking human glycan data with other omics data including disease-related information.