The main data stored in CSDB are carbohydrate structures of bacterial, fungal, and plant origin. Each structure is assigned to an organism and is provided with the link(s) to the corresponding scientific publication(s), in which it was described. Apart from structural data, CSDB also stores NMR spectra, information on methods used to decipher a particular structure, and some other data.
CSDB provides access to several carbohydrate-related research tools:
* Simulation of 1D and 2D NMR spectra of carbohydrates ([http://csdb.glycoscience.ru/database/index.html?help=nmr GODDESS: glycan-oriented database-driven empirical spectrum simulation]).
* Automated NMR-based structure elucidation ([http://csdb.glycoscience.ru/database/index.html?help=nmr#grass GRASS: generation, ranking and assignment of saccharide structures]).
* Statistical analysis of structural feature distribution in glycomes of living organisms
* Generation of optimized atomic coordinates for an arbitrary saccharide and subdatabase of conformation maps.
* Taxon clustering based on similarities of glycomes (carbohydrate-based tree of life)
* Glycosyltransferase subdatabase ([http://csdb.glycoscience.ru/gt.html GT-explorer])