Bioinformatics tools and challenges in structural analysis of lipidomics MS/MS data

Briefings in Bioinformatics

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 375-390

  Hartler, Jürgen ^a   Tharakan, Ravi ^b   Köfeler, Harald C ^c   Graham, David R ^b   Thallinger, Gerhard G ^a  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Analysis tools; High throughput; Lipidomics; MS MS data analysis; MS MS detection algorithms

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878492480     PISSN: 14675463     EISSN: 14774054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbs030     Document Type: Article

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