title: LIPID MAPS online tools for lipid research.
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/.
authors.affiliation: LIPID MAPS Bioinformatics Core, San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
authors.forename: Eoin
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Fahy
authors.forename: Manish
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sud
authors.forename: Dawn
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Cotter
authors.forename: Shankar
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Subramaniam
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D016208:Databases, Factual; D006028:Glycosphingolipids / Q000737:chemistry; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D007536:Isomerism; D050356:Lipid Metabolism; D008055:Lipids / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000145:classification; D008956:Models, Chemical; D008968:Molecular Conformation; D011134:Polysaccharides / Q000737:chemistry; D014584:User-Computer Interface
chemical_list: D006028:Glycosphingolipids; D008055:Lipids; D011134:Polysaccharides