1. Functional Glycomics and Glycobiology: An Overview Jianjun Li and James C. Richards 2. Historical Overview of Glycoanalysis Alicia M. Bielik and Joseph Zaia 3. Quantitative Glycomics Ron Orlando 4. Human Gangliosides and Bacterial Lipo-oligosaccharides in the Development of Autoimmune Neuropathies Nobuhiro Yuki 5. Biotinylated Multivalent Glycoconjugates for Surface Coating Alexander Chinarev, Oxana Galanina, and Nicolai Bovin 6. Profiling LPS Glycoforms of Non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae by Multiple-Stage Tandem Mass Spectrometry Elke K.H. Schweda and James C. Richards 7. In vitro Reconstitution of Escherichia coli O86 O Antigen Repeating Unit Weiqing Han, Lei Li, Nicholas Pettit, Wen Yi, Robert Woodward, Xianwei Liu, Wanyi Guan, Veer Bhatt, Jing Katherine Song, and Peng George Wang 8. Glycoprotein Characterization Susan M. Twine, Luc Tessier, and John F. Kelly 9. N-Linked Glycoprotein Analysis Using Dual-Extraction Ultrahigh-Performance Liquid Chromatography and Electrospray Tandem Mass Spectrometry S. O. Siu, Maggie P. Y. Lam, Edward Lau, William S.B. Yeung, David M. Cox, and Ivan K. Chu 10. Microarray-Based Study of Carbohydrate-Protein Binding Zhenxin Wang and Jingqing Gao 11. The Application of NMR Spectroscopy to Functional Glycomics Jean-Robert Brisson, Evgeny Vinogradov, David McNally, Nam Huan Khieu, Ian Schoenhofen, Susan Logan, and Harold Jarrell 12. Metabolomics in Glycomics Evelyn C. Soo and Joseph P. M. Hui 13. Characterization of Lipid-Linked Oligosaccharides by Mass Spectrometry Christopher W. Reid, Jacek Stupak, and Christine M. Szymanski 14. A Glycomics Approach to the Discovery of Potential Cancer Biomarkers Hyun Joo An and Carlito B. Lebrilla 15. Extraction of Chondroitin/Dermatan Sulfate Glycosaminoglycans from Connective Tissue for Mass Spectrometric Analysis Alicia M. Bielik and Joseph Zaia 16. N-Linked Protein Glycosylation in a Bacterial System Harald Nothaft, Xin Liu, David J. McNally, and Christine M. Szymanski 17. Characterization of Polysaccharides Using Mass Spectrometry for Bacterial Serotyping Eleonora Altman and Jianjun Li 18. Is Permethylation Strategy Always Applicable to Protein N-Glycosylation Study?: A Case Study on the O-Acetylation of Sialic Acid in Fish Serum Glycans Xin Liu and Luis Afonso 19. Bioinformatics in Glycomics: Glycan Characterization with Mass Spectrometric Data Using SimGlycan (TM) Arun Apte and Ningombam Sanjib Meitei