History of Lipidomics

The term lipidome first appeared in the literature in 2001 [25]. In 2002, Ril-fors and Lindblom [54] coined the term functional lipidomics as the study of the role played by membrane lipids. In 2003, the field bloomed with different definitions [41, 55], demonstrations of technologies [41, 56], and biological applications [41, 57, 58]. Han and Gross first defined the field of lipidomics through integrating the specific chemical properties inherent in lipid species with a comprehensive mass spectrometric approach [41]. Since then, all areas of the field have been greatly accelerated. 

A few edited books on the areas of lipid analysis and lipidomics written by the experts and/or pioneers in the field have also been published [30,59-61]. The current book provides a comprehensive description of the lipidomics discipline by using MS, from the fundamental, theory, and methods for identification and quantification, to applications. 

and Vance, J.E. (2008) Biochemistry of Lipids, Lipoproteins and Membranes. 

Christie, W.W. and Han, X. (2010) Lipid Analysis Isolation, Separation, Identification and Lipidomic Analysis. The Oily Press, Bridgwater, England, pp 448. 

Rezanka, T., MatouUcova, D., Kyselova, L. and Sigler, K. (2013) Identification of plas-malogen cardiohpins from Pectinatus by hquid chromatography-high resolution electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry. Lipids 48, 1237-1251. 

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