This project is responsible for developing, providing and assisting with qualitative and quantitative technologies for structure specific glycan analysis in complex communities. This includes a pooled fund to outsource NMR experiments of dilute glycan samples (sample preparation, measurement and data processing) to external partners. The basic research component of C3 GLYCAN ANALYTICS involves resolving a new biocatalytic cascade for the degradation and quantification of diatom fucan. C3 assists the different teams of the TRR 420 to measure glycans in their experimental and environmental datasets.