LipidXplorer Preface
Introduction
LipidX is a software for shotgun lipidomics, which relies on direct infusion of total lipid extracts into a tandem mass spectrometer. Individual species originating from various lipid classes can be distinguished and quantified using their accurately determined masses and characteristic structural fragments.
LipidX automates collecting and structuring mass spectra originated from different samples in the first part. The m/z values of all samples are aligned and stored in one data base called MasterScan.
In the second part it does automatic lipid identification by probing queries written in the molecular fragmentation query language on the MasterScan database.
LipidX is not dependent on the type of the mass spectrometer. Machine specific settings can be set to fit its attributes.
Technicalities
Although a lot of effort was put into the development of LipidX, in its reliability and stability, it still can contain errors and bugs. Even more since it is constantly developed further. Therefore we give no warranty for the program and you have to use it on your own risk.
LipidX is written in Python 2.6. It uses wxPython 2.8 and Numpy 1.3.0 and greater.
License
This program and its documentation are Copyright 2007-2010 by Ronny Herzog.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation. See the file LICENSE.txt for details.
