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  • Lipidomics informatics for ...
    Schwudke, D.; Shevchenko, A.; Hoffmann, N.; Ahrends, R.

    Journal of biotechnology, 11/2017, Letnik: 261
    Journal Article

    •First comprehensiv lipidomics platform ranging from data analysis to lipidome visualization.•Powerful and reliable tools for performing several computational steps within an analytics workflow for lipidomics experiments and lipidomic data interpretation.•All services were designed to be as intuitively and user-friendly as possible and yet offer a broad functionality to close the gap between the developers and the end users. Lipidomics encompasses analytical approaches that aim to identify and quantify the complete set of lipids, defined as lipidome in a given cell, tissue or organism as well as their interactions with other molecules. The majority of lipidomics workflows is based on mass spectrometry and has been proven as a powerful tool in system biology in concert with other Omics disciplines. Unfortunately, bioinformatics infrastructures for this relatively young discipline are limited only to some specialists. Search engines, quantification algorithms, visualization tools and databases developed by the ‘Lipidomics Informatics for Life-Science’ (LIFS) partners will be restructured and standardized to provide broad access to these specialized bioinformatics pipelines. There are many medical challenges related to lipid metabolic alterations that will be fostered by capacity building suggested by LIFS. LIFS as member of the ‘German Network for Bioinformatics’ (de.NBI) node for ‘Bioinformatics for Proteomics’ (BioInfra.Prot) and will provide access to the described software as well as to tutorials and consulting services via a unified web-portal.