This book is designed to fulfill a need for an up-to-date compendium that describes in detail well proven and effective methods for the analysis of complex carbohydrates that occur in biological systems. It has a broad scope including a variety of important new methods both for glycans and glycosaminoglycans. Written by leading experts, it includes methods for oligosaccharide analysis, profiling enzymes, glycan identification, glycan derivatisation and the analysis of molecular interactions of glycans and glycosaminoglycans. The format of the chapters is designed in a user-friendly way so that the methods described can be implemented and applied readily by glycobiologists including established researchers, research students and any worker who wishes to begin glycobiological research.