LINKS

- Lipid Maps (http://www.lipidmaps.org)

- Nomenclature

• IUPAC ( http://www.chem.qmul.ac.uk/iupac/misc/glylp.html)
• ENZYME (http://us.expasy.org/enzyme/)
• BRENDA (http://www.brenda.uni-koeln.de/)
• A comprehensive classification system for lipids: Eoin Fahy, Shankar Subramaniam, H. Alex Brown, Christopher K. Glass, Alfred H. Merrill Jr., Robert C. Murphy, Christian R.H. Raetz, David W. Russell, Yousuke Seyama, Walter Shaw, Takao Shimizu, Frederich Spener, Gerrit van Meer, Michael S. VanNieuwenhze, Stephen H. White, Joseph Witztum, and Edward A. Dennis; J. Lipid Res., Papers In Press, published online ahead of print February 16, 2005 (http://www.jlr.org/cgi/content/abstract/E400004-JLR200v1 )

- Sphingolipidomic Analytical Methods

• Metabolomic profiling of sphingolipids in human glioma cell lines by liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (PubMed)
• Analysis of sphingosine 1-phosphate, ceramides, and other bioactive sphingolipids by high-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (PubMed)
• Analysis of sphingomyelin, glucosylceramide, ceramide, sphingosine, and sphingosine 1-phosphate by tandem mass spectrometry (PubMed)
• Sphingolipidomics: High-throughput, structure-specific and quantitative analysis of sphingolipids by liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (in press, 2005; PDF available here)

- KEGG (http://www.genome.jp/kegg/)

- Lipid Bank (http://lipidbank.jp/index.shtml)

- GlycoForum (http://www.glycoforum.gr.jp/)

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