Welcome to the web portal for Lipidomics Informatics for Life Sciences (LIFS)

Even with lipid content of over 10% in the human body, lipids were not the central scientific focus during the last decade. However, more and more evidence proves that non-genetically determined molecules such as metabolites and lipids play a critical role in cellular regulation. Today, it is evident that lipids are not only crucial for energy homeostasis and as an environmental-cellular barrier but also that they represent a central part of our signal transduction machinery.

What do you need to do with your lipid data?

Our mission is to provide the bioinformatic framework to understand lipids in context and create an integrative systems biology view for lipid research.

Check out the tools we develope and provide below!

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Goslin

Web app Library Standardise

Parses the many lipid nomenclatures and serialises them back to standardised LIPID MAPS shorthand. Libraries in C++, Python, Java and R.

Open web app C++ / Py / Java / R
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LipidXplorer

Desktop Win Linux Identify

Identifies lipids from shotgun (direct-infusion) high-resolution MS data via user-defined MFQL queries.

Download v1.5.0
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lxPostman

Web app Identify

R Shiny application to post-process, quality-control and quantify LipidXplorer output.

Open web app R Shiny
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LipidCreator

Desktop Win Linux Identify

Builds targeted MS assays and in-silico spectral libraries across 60+ lipid classes, then exports them to Skyline.

Download Skyline tool
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LipidSpace

Desktop REST API Win macOS Linux Compare

Compares whole lipidomes through a structural-space model, with machine-learning feature selection, QC and an interactive GUI.

Download v1.2.2
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Lipidome Projector

Web app Compare

Interactive visualisation and analysis of lipidomics datasets in a neural-network vector space built from LIPID MAPS and SwissLipids.

Open web app browser
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MapToGo

Web app Compare

Transcript, protein, metabolite and lipid enrichment analysis onto GO terms, honouring the hierarchy of lipid shorthand names.

Open web app browser
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LipidCompass

Web app Report

A database for collecting, querying and sharing curated quantitative lipidomics datasets.

Browse data REST API
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Reporting Checklist

Web app Report

The Lipidomics Minimal Reporting Checklist as a step-wise wizard, with PDF export and an optional Zenodo DOI.

Start checklist PDF / DOI
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mzTab Validator

Web app Library Report

Web validator and REST API for mzTab 2.0-M and mzTab 1.0 reporting files.

Validate a file REST API
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mzTab-M

Library Report

A standard format for reporting quantitative mass spectrometry metabolomics results in a tab-separated file.

Read the spec HUPO-PSI
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mzQC

Library Report

A standard for reporting and exchanging quality control metrics for mass spectrometry runs and datasets.

Read the spec HUPO-PSI
Not sure which tool fits? Please reach out, we are happy to help you! Ask for support

LIFS Training Workshop at Lipidomics Forum 2026