Lipidomics needs more standardization

Modern mass spectrometric technologies provide quantitative readouts for a wide variety of lipid specimens. However, many studies do not report absolute lipid concentrations and differ vastly in methodologies, workflows and data presentation. Therefore, we encourage researchers to engage with the Lipidomics Standards Initiative to develop common standards for minimum acceptable data quality and reporting for lipidomics data, to take lipidomics research to the next level.

Liebisch, G., Ahrends, R., Arita, M. et al. Lipidomics needs more standardization. Nat Metab 1, 745–747 (2019).
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42255-019-0094-z