Contact, Credits and Disclaimers
Mission statement: The LipidWeb is an open access website, which is intended to be a major online source of information on lipid science. It is freely available to scientists, technologists, students and laymen everywhere.
Contact
This website was created by William (Bill) W. Christie © and is maintained by LipidMaps®.
He can be contacted by email at billchristie@blueyonder.co.uk
We will usually grant all reasonable requests for permission for figures in these documents to be used elsewhere for non-profit-making purposes, provided the source is acknowledged, but we retain the copyright. Formal requests should be sent to the email address above.
Credits: Many thanks to -
The James Hutton Institute (formerly the Scottish Crop Research Institute)
and especially Mylnefield Lipid Analysis, Invergowrie, Dundee, Scotland (DD2 5DA)
provided the library and laboratory facilities that have made these web pages possible.
In addition -
MicrosoftTM Expression Web and CoffeecupTM were used as the HTML editors to prepare the web pages on this site. Some clipart icons were freeware or adapted from freeware.
Most of the chemical formulae were drawn using ChemWindowsTM (Softshell, Bio-Rad and now Wiley). All mass spectra and many other figures were prepared using Metafile CompanionTM (companionsoftware.com).
Some figures were obtained via a Wikipedia Creative Commons license, and these are acknowledged in the appropriate places.
The XHTML used to prepare this site
has been independently validated by W3C.org.
Disclaimers
The author declares that he receives no payment for this website and has no commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as potential conflicts of interest.
These web pages are not subjected to peer review, and suggestions for improvements are always welcomed; they are updated regularly as new information becomes available. The LipidWeb and the author reserve the right to modify and cancel any statement in any web document and regret that they cannot accept any responsibility for the consequences of any such change. To the best of our knowledge, all information is correct, but we cannot accept liability for any errors.
Please note! Many of the procedures used in the analysis of lipids require the use of solvents and other hazardous materials. We cannot accept any responsibility for accidents that may occur while using methods described in these web pages.
| Updated: January 5th, 2023 |  |