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Shotgun Lipidomics of Rodent Tissues
Published on: November 18, 2022
A novel informatics concept for high-throughput shotgun lipidomics based on the molecular fragmentation query
Ronny Herzog1, Dominik Schwudke, Kai Schuhmann
1Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Pfotenhauerstrasse 108, 01307 Dresden, Germany.
Abstract:
Shotgun lipidome profiling relies on direct mass spectrometric analysis of total lipid extracts from cells, tissues or organisms and is a powerful tool to elucidate the molecular composition of lipidomes. We present a novel informatics concept of the molecular fragmentation query language implemented within the LipidXplorer open source software kit that supports accurate quantification of individual species of any ionizable lipid class in shotgun spectra acquired on any mass spectrometry platform.
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