Carbohydrate bioengineering is a rapidly expanding field with many applications in medicine and industry. This text brings together specialists on many different aspects of this burgeoning topic and presents their research. It covers the engineering of glycosidases for constructive purposes, structure-function studies and protein engineering of carbohydrate-active enzymes, chemo-enzymatic carbohydrate synthesis, and trends emerging from comprehensive work on genomes and glycomes. This publication is aimed at all those needing access to research in the field, including practitioners in the medicinal, chemical, food and pharmaceutical areas.