We are developing methods to make the modelling of carbohydrates easier than ever, and for that we would like to introduce our new software package called Sails. Sails is a software package that is able to automatically model N-glycans, O-glycans and C-glycans into density from X-ray crystallography and cryo-electron microscopy. This method is not yet in CCP4, however, if you have a structure which may contain glycans, we would be happy to allow you to use it, both to speed up your structure solution and to test this new software.

Sails is available as a Python package and can be installed using this command.

pip install pysails

Sails has a range of features to help you locate, model and visualise glyans, which are described in more detail in the documentation.

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