Executive Summary

Organisms and cellular Systems - Survey

Human Cell Lines	27
Mice	22
Blood	22
Biopsy	18
Human Primary	15
Mouse	15
Rats	14
Yeast	14
Urine	10
Eubacteria	5
Rabbits	4
Arabidopsis	4
Agricultural Crop	3
Stool	3

Table 5: Survey on the areas of Lipidomics expertise; Institutions with medium and high expertise level (only organisms with more than 2 hits)

Beside this contact and expertise database the LEP contains databases for lipid standards (Fig. 4) and for methods (Fig. 5), which should improve methodology and standard material exchange.

Fig. 4: Methodology Database.

Fig. 5: Lipid Standard Database.

Currently, as one goal of the FP project LipidomicNet the Wikipedia software is being integrated into the LEP (LEP-Wiki, Fig. 6), which will provide information on lipids from basic information to advanced aspects like the biology and pathophysiology that lipids are involved in.

A major source for LEP-Wiki is a close link to other databases including LIPID MAPS (http://www.lipidmaps.org) for lipid nomenclature and lipid species data, Lipid Bank - Japan (http://www.lipidbank.jp) for lipid species data and KEGG PATHWAY Database for metabolic pathways (http://www.genome.jp/kegg/pathway.html). Moreover, information on lipid metabolic pathways will be linked to genomics information including databases like Ensembl (http://www.ensembl.org).

LEP-Wiki lives from the contribution of people interested in Lipidomics. All Lipidomics Expertise Platform (LEP) members can edit the content and add new data.

Fig. 6: LEP-Wiki