Integrated Quantification and Multivariate Analysis Workbench System for Phospholipids

Phospholipids are essential components of cell membrane, which consists of variety of phospholipid molecular species with different chain lengths, unsaturated bound positions and polar groups. A mass spectrometer (MS) is widely used to identify and to quantify phospholipid molecular species in a mixture due to its high sensitivity. To observe expression difference among organs or in time-series data of developmental process, quantification must be performed for multiple samples, and the results tend to produce a high dimensional data. To simplify experimental data processing and analyzing step, we developed an integrated workbench system for phospholipid quantification and analysis.