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Figure 1: N-glycan D-pyranosides in high-energy conformations, as deposited in the PDB (left), and their corrected counterparts (right).

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This work was supported by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council grant BB/K008153/1 (to K.S.W. and K.D.C.), Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO) grant CTQ2014-55174-P (to C.R.) and Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR) grant 2014SGR-987 (to C.R.). The authors thank E. Krissinel (CCP4) for valuable assistance in using CCP4SRS and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) for providing computing support.

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Agirre, J., Iglesias-Fernández, J., Rovira, C. et al. Privateer: software for the conformational validation of carbohydrate structures. Nat Struct Mol Biol 22, 833–834 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nsmb.3115

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