NEW YORK, Sept. 5 — Geneva Bioinformatics, the commercial arm of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB), said on Tuesday it had obtained the rights to exclusively distribute GlycoSuite, Proteome Systems’ database of protein glycosylation.

Glycosylation is a variety of protein modifications important in protein function and diseases such as cancer.

“A significant problem was that information concerning glycosylation was scattered throughout the literature in thousands of scientific publications,” said Proteome Systems CEO Keith Williams in a statement.