Various participants of the 2nd Beilstein Symposium on Glyco-Bioinformatics talk about their area of expertise in the research field of Glyco-Bioinformatics. Interviewees are Peter H. Seeberger, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany Rene Ranzinger, Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA Thisbe K. Lindhorst, Institut für Organische Chemie, Universität Kiel, Germany Jim Paulson, Departments of Chemical Physiology and Molecular Biology, Scripps Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA Pauline Rudd, National Institute for Bioprocessing Research Training (MIBRT), University College Dublin, Ireland