Invited speakers

Kiyoko F. Aoki-Kinoshita became involved in glycoinformatics after working in a bioinformatics software company between 2000-2004 as a senior software engineer, when she joined the Bioinformatics Center in Kyoto University first as a post-doctoral fellow and later as an assistant professor until 2006. She started her own laboratory at Soka University in 2006. Since 2014, she has been developing the international glycan repository, GlyTouCan (http://www.glytoucan.org), for assigning unique accession numbers to all glycan structures and monosaccharide compositions.  From 2017, she has been PI of the GlyCosmos Portal (https://glycosmos.org) as an extension of GlyTouCan, which aims to integrate glycomics data with other omics fields (Yamada, et al., Nat. Methods, 2020).  GlyCosmos is a member of the GlySpace Alliance, which aims to provide an international collaboration between GlyGen and Glycomics@ExPASy, to openly maintain and share glycan-related data under the FAIR guidelines. Kiyoko is also a member of the MIRAGE Intiative for promoting reporting guidelines for glycomics experiments, where her resources are recommended repositories supporting these guidelines.