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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Oct 12.
Published in final edited form as: Chem Rev. 2011 Sep 23;111(10):6452–6490. doi: 10.1021/cr200295k

Table 2.

Resources and databases containing information about lipids.

Name URL Comments/Description
LMSD www.lipidmaps.org LIPID MAPS lipids structure database
LIPID BANK www.lipidbank.jp/ Database of Japanese Conference on the Biochemistry of lipids
LIPIDAT www.lipidat.tcd.ie Database of thermodynamic and associated information on lipids
Lipid Library www.lipidlibrary.org Information about lipid chemistry, biology, technology and analysis
Cyberlipids www.cyberlipid.org Resource for lipid studies
HMDB www.hmdb.ca Human metabololome database
DrugBank www.drugbank.ca Drug data with target and action information
TTD xin.cz3.nus.edu.sg/group/ttd/ttd.asp Therapeutic target database along with drug information
ChEBI www.ebi.ac.uk/chebi Database and ontology for chemical entities of biological interest
ChemBank chembank.broad.harvard.edu Small molecule screening and cheminformatics resource database
PubChem pubchem.nci.nih.gov Public repository for biological properties of small molecules including assay and screening data
ZINC zinc.docking.org Commercially available compounds for virtual screening
ChemSpider www.chemspider.com Chemical information resource
CAS www.cas.org Small molecule databases and associated information
eMolecules www.emolecules.com Commercially available small molecules
Beilstein www.reaxys.com/ Small molecules structures and other information
KEGG LIGAND www.genome.jp/kegg/ligand.html Database of chemical compounds and reactions in biological pathways