CAZac: an activity descriptor for carbohydrate-active enzymes

The Carbohydrate-Active enZYme database (CAZy; www.cazy.org) has been providing the reference classification of carbohydrate-active enzymes (CAZymes) for >30 years. Based on literature survey, the sequence-based families of CAZymes are enriched with functional data by using the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Enzyme Commission (EC) number system. However, this system was not developed to search or compare functional information. To better harness functional information,...