Fig. 2.
General Workflow of Lipidomics for Breast Cancer Research. Three main steps to lipidomic analysis include sample preparation, MS-Detection, and Data Analysis. MTBE = methyl tert-butyl ether, BUME = butanol/methanol, ESI = Electrospray ionization, MALDI = Matrix assisted laser desorption ionization, SIMS = Secondary ion mass spectrometry, APCI = Atmospheric Pressure Chemical Ionization, APPI = atmospheric pressure polarization ionization, DESI = Desorption electrospray ionization, MS = Mass spectrometry, ANOVA = Analysis of variance, SAM = Significance Analysis of Microarrays, EBAM = Empirical Bayes Analysis of Microarrays.