LipidXplorer

LipidXplorer is an open-source software tool to support the quantitative characterization of complex lipidomes. It achieves this through the interpretation of large datasets of shotgun mass spectra. One of the key strengths of LipidXplorer is its ability to process spectra acquired on any type of tandem mass spectrometer, enabling researchers to identify and quantify molecular species of any ionizable lipid class. This can be achieved independently of any resource of reference mass spectra, making LipidXplorer an incredibly useful tool for researchers in the field of bioinformatics.

The software tool supports any shotgun profiling routine, from high throughput top-down screening for molecular diagnostic and biomarker discovery to the targeted absolute quantification of low abundant lipid species. Researchers can use LipidXplorer to analyze a wide range of samples, from those with high lipid content to those with low.