{"id":780,"date":"2025-01-18T00:00:23","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T15:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/igcore.thers.ac.jp\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=780"},"modified":"2025-03-04T15:54:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T06:54:05","slug":"780-2","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/igcore.thers.ac.jp\/en\/news\/780-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Signing of a Letter of Intent on Collaboration Between GlySpace Alliance, HGA, and J-GlycoNet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"395\">On January 17, 2025, GlySpace Alliance, HGA, and J-GlycoNet signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) at Soka University. The signing was attended by Professor Nicolle Packer (Macquarie University), Dr. Kenji Kadomatsu (iGOCRE Director, Human Glycome Project Representative, J-GlycoNet Head), and Dr. Nishihara and Dr. Kinoshita from Soka University\u2019s GaLSIC, which has contributed to GlySpace Alliance.<\/p>\r\n<p data-start=\"397\" data-end=\"764\">At the preceding GaLSIC Symposium, Dr. Kadomatsu discussed the potential of glycan research\u2014the \"third chain of life\" alongside nucleic acids and proteins\u2014to unveil biological mysteries. He highlighted HGA\u2019s efforts in human glycan analysis, automated analytical tools, and the knowledge base TOHSA, stressing the importance of collaboration with GlySpace Alliance.<\/p>\r\n<p data-start=\"397\" data-end=\"764\">\u203b GlySpace Alliance is an international consortium of glycoscience web portals, including GlyGen (USA), Glycomics@Expasy (Switzerland), and GlyCosmos (Japan).<\/p>\r\n<p data-start=\"397\" data-end=\"764\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/igcore.thers.ac.jp\/wp_control\/wp-content\/uploads\/20250129_04-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-984\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/igcore.thers.ac.jp\/wp_control\/wp-content\/uploads\/20250129_02-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-985\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":789,"parent":0,"template":"","news_cat":[2],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/igcore.thers.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/780"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/igcore.thers.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/igcore.thers.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/igcore.thers.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/igcore.thers.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/igcore.thers.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_cat?post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}