Lipidomics update - April, 2018
The lipidomics update provides an overview of developments in lipid research. Each month we offer a fresh collection of research, news and events for the specialist and the interested non-specialist alike.
LIPID MAPS® highlights
We are pleased to announce a collaboration with William (Bill) W. Christie, who has kindly agreed to share some of the valuable lipid resources from his website, 'The Lipid Web'. To that end, his blog, "Lipid Matters - A Personal Blog" is now available via the LIPID MAPS Lipidomics Gateway.
The July 19th, 2017 entry begins:
In the search for new antibiotics, lipopeptides appear to offer great potential if problems of toxicity can be overcome. Paenibacillus sp. have proved to be of special interest, and a new report describes a fresh isolate that produces novel cyclic and linear lipopeptides . . . more lipid matters
Lipid of the month
Alpha-linolenic acid or ALA (systematic Name: 9Z,12Z,15Z-octadecatrienoic acid) is an unsaturated fatty acid found primarily in seeds and vegetable oils. ALA is categorized as an omega-3 fatty acid, and is an isomer of gamma-linolenic acid, which is a polyunsaturated omega-6 fatty acid. It is an essential fatty acid because it is necessary for health and cannot be produced within the human body. ALA can only be obtained by humans through their diets because the absence of the required 12- and 15-desaturase enzymes makes de novo synthesis from stearic acid or oleic acid impossible.
Events calendar
3rd International Conference on Lipid Science & Technology
Dec 11-12, 2017
Rome, ItalyBioinformatics 2018: 9th International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods, and Algorithms
January 19-21, 2018
Funchal, Madeira, Portugal
Research library
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Anal Chem 2017 Jul 18. doi: 10.1021/acs.analchem.7b02375. [Epub ahead of print]
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Nat Genet. 2017 Aug;49(8):1267-1273. doi: 10.1038/ng.3893. Epub 2017 Jun 19.