LIPID MAPS online tools for lipid research

E Fahy, M Sud, D Cotter… - Nucleic acids research, 2007 - academic.oup.com
E Fahy, M Sud, D Cotter, S Subramaniam
Nucleic acids research, 2007academic.oup.com
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) …
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/.
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