Preface to the Second Edition
All of the commitments that we expressed in the preface of the 2001 first edition still hold
true. The fact that we now introduce a second edition, seven years later, reflects the burgeoning
research developments in glycoscience, and the broad impact these developments are having
on contemporary biological science. The term “Glycoscience”, selected first for a comprehensive collection of reviews a decade ago in Topics in Current Chemistry, has become the generally accepted language to describe the interests of scientists at all levels who are involved in
research associated with chemistry, chemical biology and the biology of saccharides.
Readers of Glycoscience 2nd Edition will immediately notice that the editorial board has been
supplemented with six younger colleagues of top scientific rank in the glycoscience area. We
are happy to have been able to convince:
G. Coté, National Center for Agricultural Utilization and Research, Agricultural Research
Service, Peoria, USA;
S. Flitsch, University of Manchester, UK;
Y. Ito, Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Saitama, Japan;
H. Kondo, Shionogi & Co., Ltd., Osaka, Japan;
S.-I. Nishimura, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan;
B. Yu, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai,
China
to serve as Section Editors.
Their dedicated work in modifying and extending the coverage of the first edition, while
maintaining its focus, has resulted in a contemporary appearance. This is particularly true
of chapters which cover the bridges that link chemistry to biological chemistry to medicinal
chemistry.
On behalf of the Editors and the Section Editors it is our pleasure to extend our gratitude
to our dedicated expert colleagues, for their prodigious and scholarly work in updating the
chapters. Finally, we are very pleased to note the constant and dedicated support and productive
collaboration that we enjoyed with Drs. Marion Hertel and Sylvia Blago, and their highly
dedicated editorial staff from Springer, Heidelberg.
January 2008
Bertram O. Fraser-Reid
Kuniaki Tatsuta
Joachim Thiem
All of the commitments that we expressed in the preface of the 2001 first edition still hold
true. The fact that we now introduce a second edition, seven years later, reflects the burgeoning
research developments in glycoscience, and the broad impact these developments are having
on contemporary biological science. The term “Glycoscience”, selected first for a comprehensive collection of reviews a decade ago in Topics in Current Chemistry, has become the generally accepted language to describe the interests of scientists at all levels who are involved in
research associated with chemistry, chemical biology and the biology of saccharides.
Readers of Glycoscience 2nd Edition will immediately notice that the editorial board has been
supplemented with six younger colleagues of top scientific rank in the glycoscience area. We
are happy to have been able to convince:
G. Coté, National Center for Agricultural Utilization and Research, Agricultural Research
Service, Peoria, USA;
S. Flitsch, University of Manchester, UK;
Y. Ito, Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Saitama, Japan;
H. Kondo, Shionogi & Co., Ltd., Osaka, Japan;
S.-I. Nishimura, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan;
B. Yu, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai,
China
to serve as Section Editors.
Their dedicated work in modifying and extending the coverage of the first edition, while
maintaining its focus, has resulted in a contemporary appearance. This is particularly true
of chapters which cover the bridges that link chemistry to biological chemistry to medicinal
chemistry.
On behalf of the Editors and the Section Editors it is our pleasure to extend our gratitude
to our dedicated expert colleagues, for their prodigious and scholarly work in updating the
chapters. Finally, we are very pleased to note the constant and dedicated support and productive
collaboration that we enjoyed with Drs. Marion Hertel and Sylvia Blago, and their highly
dedicated editorial staff from Springer, Heidelberg.
January 2008
Bertram O. Fraser-Reid
Kuniaki Tatsuta
Joachim Thiem