LIPID MAPS

The resource has spearheaded a classification of biological lipids, dividing them into eight general categories.

[11] In January 2020, LIPID MAPS became an ELIXIR service.

[13] LIPID MAPS was founded in 2003 with NIH funding.

[14] LIPID MAPS was previously funded by a multi-institutional grant from Wellcome, and is now funded under an MRC Partnership award, held jointly by University of Cardiff led by Prof Valerie O'Donnell, the Babraham Institute, UCSD and Swansea University, and The University of Edinburgh.

Wakelam's obituary describes LIPID MAPS as unifying the field of lipidomics.