LIPID MAPS online tools for lipid research
Top Cited Papers
Open Access
- 8 May 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Nucleic Acids Research
- Vol. 35 (Web Server), W606-W612
- https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkm324
Abstract
The LIPID MAPS consortium has developed a number of online tools for performing tasks such as drawing lipid structures and predicting possible structures from mass spectrometry (MS) data. A simple online interface has been developed to enable an end-user to rapidly generate a variety of lipid chemical structures, along with corresponding systematic names and ontological information. The structure-drawing tools are available for six categories of lipids: (i) fatty acyls, (ii) glycerolipids, (iii) glycerophospholipids, (iv) cardiolipins, (v) sphingolipids and (vi) sterols. Within each category, the structure-drawing tools support the specification of various parameters such as chain lengths at a specific sn position, head groups, double bond positions and stereochemistry to generate a specific lipid structure. The structure-drawing tools have also been integrated with a second set of online tools which predict possible lipid structures from precursor-ion and product-ion MS experimental data. The MS prediction tools are available for three categories of lipids: (i) mono/di/triacylglycerols, (ii) glycerophospholipids and (iii) cardiolipins. The LIPID MAPS online tools are publicly available at www.lipidmaps.org/tools/.Keywords
This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
- LMSD: LIPID MAPS structure databaseNucleic Acids Research, 2006
- A comprehensive classification system for lipidsJournal of Lipid Research, 2005
- Analysis of Nonvolatile Lipids by Mass SpectrometryChemical Reviews, 2001
- LIPIDAT: A database of lipid phase transition temperatures and enthalpy changes. DMPC data subset analysisChemistry and Physics of Lipids, 1992