Collection of structures and annotations of biologically relevant lipids that contains unique lipid structures. Structures of lipids from : LIPID MAPS Consortium's core laboratories and partners; lipids identified by LIPID MAPS experiments; biologically relevant lipids manually curated from LIPID BANK, LIPIDAT, Lipid Library, Cyberlipids, ChEBI and other public sources; novel lipids submitted to peer-reviewed journals; and computationally generated structures for appropriate classes. All the lipid structures adhere to the structure drawing rules proposed by the LIPID MAPS consortium. A number of structure viewing options are offered: gif image (default), Chemdraw (requires Chemdraw ActiveX/Plugin), MarvinView (Java applet) and JMol (Java applet). All lipids have been classified using the LIPID MAPS Lipid Classification System. Each lipid structure has been assigned a LIPID MAPS ID (LM_ID) which reflects its position in the classification hierarchy. In addition to a classification-based retrieval of lipids, users can search using either text-based or structure-based search options.

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