LipidOne
LipidOne analyzes lipidomic data at the building-block level to identify and quantify lipid building blocks across lipid classes and experimental groups and to correlate these changes with enzyme activity, gene expression and transcript levels using LC/MS-derived data.
Key Features:
- Building Block Analysis: Identifies and analyzes changes in lipid building blocks across lipid classes and experimental groups.
- Integration with LC/MS: Processes and leverages liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry (LC/MS) data for qualitative and quantitative lipid determination.
- Correlation with Biological Processes: Correlates alterations in building blocks with enzyme activity, gene expression, and transcript levels.
- Systems Biology Perspective: Focuses on constituent lipid parts rather than only assembled lipid molecules to support systems-level interpretation of lipid metabolism.
Scientific Applications:
- Lipid Metabolism Studies: Dissects compositional changes in lipid building blocks to inform biochemical synthesis and transformation processes.
- Disease Biomarker Discovery: Identifies building-block–level alterations that may serve as lipidomic biomarkers for disease states.
- Metabolic Pathway Analysis: Links changes in lipid constituents to metabolic pathway modulation and regulation.
- Case-Control Experiments: Detects subtle differences in lipid composition between experimental groups in case-control study designs.
- Linking Molecular to Molecular Phenotypes: Associates molecular alterations in lipids with enzymatic activities and genetic expression profiles.
- Personalized Medicine and Therapeutics: Supports targeted therapeutic strategy development by providing building-block–level lipidomic profiles.
Methodology:
Identifies and quantifies lipid building blocks across lipid classes and experimental groups from LC/MS data and correlates building-block changes with enzyme activity, gene expression, and transcript levels.
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Details
- License:
- GPL-3.0
- Cost:
- Free of charge
- Tool Type:
- desktop application, workflow
- Operating Systems:
- Windows
- Programming Languages:
- Perl
- Added:
- 6/19/2022
- Last Updated:
- 6/19/2022
Operations
Data Inputs & Outputs
Expression correlation analysis
Publications
Pellegrino RM, Giulietti M, Alabed HBR, Buratta S, Urbanelli L, Piva F, Emiliani C. LipidOne: user-friendly lipidomic data analysis tool for a deeper interpretation in a systems biology scenario. Bioinformatics. 2021;38(6):1767-1769. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btab867. PMID:34971364.