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About the LIPID MAPS Consortium

Sequencing of the human genome has opened the way and provided the impetus for building a comprehensive picture of a mammalian cell. Significant efforts are underway in the fields of genomics and proteomics to identify all genes and proteins in a given organism. The goal is a complete map of the genes, gene products and their interaction networks in a functioning cell. The next step in establishing a comprehensive picture of a cell will be to tie the cell's metabolome into the rapidly developing genomic and proteomic maps. A cell's metabolome, however, is such an enormous and complex entity that characterizing it can only be approached in sections. This consortium is now proposing to focus on the lipid section of the metabolome by developing an integrated metabolomic system capable of characterizing the global changes in lipid metabolites ("lipidomics"). Our consortium has developed a Lipid Metabolites and Pathways Strategy, termed LIPID MAPS, that applies a global integrated approach to the study of lipidomics.

Funding

LIPID MAPS is funded by National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) Glue Grant NIH/NIGMS Grant 1 U54 GM69338.

Press Releases

May 13, 2005 EurekAlert!: Lipids get new comprehensive classification system

September 26, 2003 Vanderbilt Medical Center, The Reporter: Counting fats: new consortium to map cellular lipids

September, 2003 University of Colorado Health Sciences Center: CU to do analysis for $35 million NIH lipid mapping

August 12, 2003 NIGMS News Releases & Research Briefs: Participating Institutions and Researchers (Document no longer available)

August 12, 2003 Future Pundit: Future technological trends and their likely effects on human society, politics and evolution.

August 11, 2003 NIGMS News Releases & Research Briefs: Lipids Get the Spotlight in New NIGMS 'Glue Grant'

August 11, 2003 UCSD Press Release: NIGMS AWARDS $35 MILLION TO UCSD-LED CONSORTIUM TO MAP METABOLIC PATHWAYS IN CELLS