The Lipid Library

LINKS

We have tried to place these lipid-related links in convenient subdivisions, but some of them are a little arbitrary. Please inform us of any others that you think should be here. If you approve, why not put a link to us on your own website?

Our Sponsors

• Mylnefield Lipid Analysis Unit - Commercial analysis of lipids - fully accredited - www.lipid.co.uk

Not to forget -

• The Scottish Crop Research Institute - Scotland's premier plant research institute - www.scri.ac.uk.

Sources of Basic Information on Lipids

• Cyberlipid - a website containing much useful information on lipid chemistry, biochemistry and analysis. (http://www.cyberlipid.org/).
• Lipid Nomenclature - Click here for the IUPAC Guide. Or go to our web-page dealing with the topic.
• Conjugated Linoleic acid - Wisconsin Food Research Institute (http://www.wisc.edu/fri/clarefs.htm) These pages give a comprehensive list of references to papers dealing with CLA.
• Compilation of trivial names of fatty acids (by R.O. Adlof and F.D. Gunstone) (http://www.aocs.org/member/division/analytic/fanames.cfm).
• Lipidat - a relational database of thermodynamic and associated information on lipid mesophase and crystal polymorphic transitions, including lipid molecular structures (glycero- and sphingolipids). http://www.lipidat.ul.ie/
• Lipid Bank for Web - a Japanese database of information on lipid structures and properties with thousands of references (http://lipidbank.jp/).
• Craig Byrdwell's website on mass spectrometry - www.byrdwell.com - plus companion sites with tabulated data on ESI and APCI fragmentation for lipid classes at: www.Triacylglycerols.com - www.Sphingomyelin.com - www.PhosphatidylCholines.com - www.PhosphatidylEthanolamines.com - www.PhosphatidylSerines.com - www.PhosphatidylGlycerols.com - www.PhosphatidylInositols.com, and www.Plasmalogens.com
• Lipid Maps - a database of information on lipid structures and mass spectrometry of lipids - www.lipidmaps.org
• Sphingomap - a source of information on sphingolipids related to the previous - www.sphingomap.org
• Lipids, membranes and vesicle tracking - chemistry and biochemistry of biomembranes - www.biochemweb.org/lipids_membranes.shtml
  - or try - www.cytochemistry.net/Cell-biology/membrane.htm
• Fats of Life. Readable and informative newsletters dealing with fatty acid metabolism for both scientists and consumers. www.fatsoflife.com
• DHA/EPA Omega-3 Institute. Web site dealing with the science of omega-3 fatty acids, produced by Dr Bruce Holub. www.dhaomega3.org

General Access to Journals and other On-Line Data Sources

• Highwire - free access to back issues of many biochemical journals, including the Journal of Lipid Research (current issues are free after 1-2 years) http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl
• Free Medical Journals - free access to journals with a medical bias mainly, but also including biochemistry and microbiology. http://www.freemedicaljournals.com
• Chemweb - links to many chemical journals with free access to some. It is necessary to register for some but this is free. http://www.chemweb.com/
• The Virtual Library - access to a vast number of useful links and data bases according to scientific discipline. http://www.vlib.org/
• Free Chemical Journals - Links to a number of chemical journals with a degree of free access (including trial issues) - http://www.chemistry.bsu.by/abc/current/fulltext.htm
• PubMed Central - free access to back issues of many useful biology journals - www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov
• Journal@rchive - free access to back issues of selected Japanese Journals - http://www.journalarchive.jst.go.jp/english/top_en.php
• Glycoforum – sphingolipid pages - short articles (in English) by Japanese scientists dealing with glycosphingolipids  www.glycoforum.gr.jp/science/word/glycolipid/GL_E.html
• Google Scholar - a valuable site for a quick literature search - scholar.google.com

Specific Journals and Books

• The Oily Press (P.J. Barnes and Associates) - publisher of books on all aspects of lipid chemistry and biochemistry- www.pjbarnes.co.uk.
• Lipids - monthly journal of lipid science produced by AOCS - www.springerlink.com/content/1558-9307/
• Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society - more applied aspects of lipid science from AOCS - www.springerlink.com/content/1558-9331/
• Lipid Technology - www.lipid-technology.com/
• Journal of Lipid Research  - the complete archive back to 1959 is now freely available online (other than the two most recent years) - www.jlr.org/
• Progress in Lipid Research - the longest established journal providing reviews on all aspects of lipid science - www.sciencedirect.com/
• European Journal of Lipid Science and Technology - www3.interscience.wiley.com/
• Chemistry and Physics of Lipids - www.science direct.com/
• Biochimica Biophysica Acta - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids - www.sciencedirect.com/
• Oleagineux Corps gras Lipides - oils and fats Journal produced by CETIOM in France - www.john-libbey-eurotext.fr/
• J. Oleo Science - replacing Yukagaku with the Japanese Oil Chemists' Society - jos.jstage.jst.go.jp/en/.
• Lipids in Health and Disease - an on-line journal with free access - www.lipidworld.com
• Current Opinion in Lipidology - bi-monthly journal dealing with clinical aspects - www.co-lipidology.com
• Future Lipidology - bi-monthly journal dealing mainly with medical matters - www.futuremedicine.com/loi/flp

General Lipid-Related Organizations

• American Oil Chemists' Society (AOCS) (http://www.aocs.org) - activities and meetings of the world's largest society dealing with oils and fats or lipids.
• DGF (Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Fettwissenschaft e.V.) - the German Oils and Fats Society (www.dgfett.de/).
• Euro Fed Lipid (www.eurofedlipid.org) - European Federation of the Science and Technology of Lipids. A federation of certain existing National Societies within Europe with praiseworthy ambitions.
• GERLI - Research Group on Lipidomics (Groupe d'Etude et de Recherche en Lipidomique), a thematic group of the French Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Web site: http://www.gerli.com/home.htm
• LipidForum - Scandinavian Society for Lipid Research - organizes meetings in the Nordic countries and publishes regular news letters (http://www.lipidforum.org).
• International Society for the Study of Fatty Acids and Lipids (ISSFAL) (http://www.issfal.org.uk/).
• International Lecithin and Phospholipid Society (ILPS). (http://www.ilps.org/)

Plant Lipids

• On-line chemical data base for new seed crops provided by BAGKF (Institute for Chemistry and Physics of Lipids), Munster, Germany - SOFA (Seed Oil Fatty Acids) - sofa.bfel.de/ - (see Aitzetmuller et al., Eur. J. Lipid Sci. Technol., 105, 92-103 (2003)).
• A catalogue of genes for plant lipid biosynthesis at Michigan State University (http://www.canr.msu.edu/lgc/index.html)
• NPLC (National Plant Lipid Cooperative) ( http://www.msu.edu/user/ohlrogge/)
  A further source of links to web-based lipid information, includes:
  • NPLC Directory of Plant Lipid Scientists
  • The NPLC Electronic Mailing List
  • The NPLC Database of Plant Lipid Literature
• The Plant Lipid Home Page (http://blue.butler.edu/~kschmid/lipids.html) - maintained by Katherine M. Schmid this page contains many excellent lipid-related links.
• Castor oil - source of information on castor oil with many links to other plant oil sites and resources (http://www.castoroil.in).

Food and Industry Related

• American Soybean Association. - European website  - (www.asa-europe.org)
• Britannia Foods has some articles 'By Invitation Only' of interest to lipid technologists mainly (www.britanniafood.com).
• British Nutrition Foundation - carries information on lipids in addition to other food components. (www.nutrition.org.uk)
• FFA Sciences is a company manufacturing probes to measure free fatty acid levels in oils and clinical samples (www.ffasciences.com).
• IENICA - an Interactive European Network for Industrial Crops and their Applications. (www.csl.gov.uk/ienica/)
• Institute of Shortening and Edible Oils - technical information on oils and fats in foods www.iseo.org
• Institute of Food Science and Technology- contains information on various food problems - including those involving lipids. (www.ifst.org)
• ITERG. French Research Institute dealing with oils and fats research and technology (www.iterg.com)
• Oil World is a German company producing data on a weekly basis for oilseeds, oils and fats, and oilmeals and covers production, imports, exports, and disappearance. Information is based on different commodity oils and fats and is presented on the basis of individual countries. (www.oilworld.de).
• Peter Lapinskas - consultant to the Oils & Fats Industry - interesting data on unusual seed oils (www.lapinskas.com)

Sources of Lipid Standards

• Avanti Polar Lipids Inc. (USA) - (http://www.avantilipids.com/NonFlashHome.html)  - suppliers of pure lipid standards
• Echelon Inc. (USA) (www.echelon-inc.com) - suppliers of sphingolipids, lysophospholipids and other biologically active lipids.
• Larodan (Sweden) - (http://www.larodan.se/) - pure fatty acids and lipids
• Matreya Inc. (U.S.A.) (http://www.matreya.com/) - pure fatty acids and lipids
• Nu-Chek Prep. Inc. (U.S.A.) - (http://www.nu-chekprep.com) - pure fatty acids and lipids
• Oxford Biomedical Research (U.K.) - (http://www.oxfordbiomed.com/)  - eicosanoids, prostaglandins, bioactive lipids

Updated: 9/3/2008 Credits/disclaimer	Scottish Crop Research Institute (and MRS Lipid Analysis Unit), Invergowrie, Dundee (DD2 5DA), Scotland