LIPID MAPS -- LIPID Metabolites And Pathways Strategy
What you can do:
Online tools for lipid research.
Highlights:
- 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.
Keywords:
- Glycosphingolipids
- Isomerism
- Lipid Metabolism
- Lipids
- Polysaccharides
- fatty acyls
- glycerolipids
- glycerophospholipids
- cardiolipins
- sphingolipids
- sterols
- lipid structure
Literature & Tutorials:
PubMed Link: LIPID MAPS online tools for lipid research
This record last updated: 06-02-2008