Table 2 Bond similarity. The matrix gives the similarity among chemical bonds in glycan database. Higher score indicates that the two chemical bonds are more similar to each other.

a1-2

1

a1-3

0.6

1

a1-4

0.6

0.9

1

a1-6

0.6

0.6

0.6

1

b1-2

0.8

0.5

0.5

0.5

1

b1-3

0.5

0.8

0.6

0.5

0.6

1

b1-4

0.5

0.6

0.8

0.5

0.6

0.9

1

b1-6

0.5

0.5

0.5

0.8

0.6

0.6

0.6

1

a2-3

0.4

0.4

0.4

0.4

0.4

0.4

0.4

0.4

1

a2-6

0.4

0.4

0.4

0.4

0.4

0.4

0.4

0.4

0.6

1

a2-8

0.4

0.4

0.4

0.4

0.4

0.4

0.4

0.4

0.6

0.7

1

a2-9

0.4

0.4

0.4

0.4

0.4

0.4

0.4

0.4

0.6

0.7

0.85

1

-6

0

0

0

0.55

0

0

0

0.3

0

0

0

0

1

-3

0

0.47

0

0

0

0.41

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

-4

0

0

0.8

0

0

0

0.2

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

1