LIPID MAPS: update to databases and tools for the lipidomics community

LIPID MAPS (LIPID Metabolites and Pathways Strategy), www.lipidmaps.org, provides a systematic and standardized approach to organizing lipid structural and biochemical data. Founded 20 years ago, the LIPID MAPS nomenclature and classification has become the accepted community standard. LIPID MAPS provides databases for cataloging and identifying lipids at varying levels of characterization in addition to numerous software tools and educational resources, and became an ELIXIR-UK data resource in 2020. This paper describes the expansion of existing databases in LIPID MAPS, including richer metadata with literature provenance, taxonomic data and improved interoperability to facilitate FAIR compliance. A joint…

• WT
  Wellcome Trust

  Award: 203014/Z/16/Z]
• CU
  Cardiff University
• NI
  National Institutes of Health

  Awards: U2CDK119886, R35 GM139641
• BA
  Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

  Awards: BB/X011100/1, BB/P017193/1, BB/L005042/1
• NI
  National Institute of General Medical Sciences

  Award: R35 GM139641