LipidFinder: A computational workflow for discovery of lipids identifies eicosanoid-phosphoinositides in platelets
LipidFinder: A computational workflow for discovery of lipids identifies eicosanoid-phosphoinositides in platelets
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10.1172/jci.insight.91634
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发表时间:
2017-04-06
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O'Donnell, Valerie B.
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作者:
O'Connor, Anne;Brasher, Christopher J.;O'Donnell, Valerie B.
Accurate and high-quality curation of lipidomic datasets generated from plasma, cells, or tissues is becoming essential for cell biology investigations and biomarker discovery for personalized medicine. However, a major challenge lies in removing artifacts otherwise mistakenly interpreted as real lipids from large mass spectrometry files (> 60 K features), while retaining genuine ions in the dataset. This requires powerful informatics tools; however, available workflows have not been tailored specifically for lipidomics, particularly discovery research. We designed LipidFinder, an open-source Python workflow. An algorithm is included that optimizes analysis based on users ' own data, and outputs are screened against online databases and categorized into LIPID MAPS classes. LipidFinder outperformed three widely used metabolomics packages using data from human platelets. We show a family of three 12-hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid phosphoinositides (16:0/, 18:1/, 18:0/12-HETE-PI) generated by thrombin-activated platelets, indicating crosstalk between eicosanoid and phosphoinositide pathways in human cells. The software is available on GitHub (https://github.com/cjbrasher/LipidFinder), with full userguides.