Executive Summary

Design an Expertise Platform on Lipidomics

Hold a survey of expertise and infrastructure with the Lipidomics field

Description of the Lipidomics Expertise Platform (LEP)

The Lipidomics Expertise Platform (LEP, http://www.lipidomics-expertise.de) was set up in 2005 (Fig. 1).

Fig. 1: Starting page and menu structure of the LEP

In order to gain full access institutions and users have to register with the LEP. Currently, 128 different scientific and 6 industrial institutions are registered in the LEP. These institutions include a total number of 188 registered users. Most users belong to 18 different European countries, although there are non-European registrations from 8 countries (Table 1). The contact details of institutions and user registered in LEP are attached in appendices 1 and 3, respectively.

Europe