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Data Mining and Analysis of Lipidomics datasets in R
https://www.lipidr.org/
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What is ACar? #13

Closed Lucianabarros closed 3 years ago

Lucianabarros commented 3 years ago

Hello,

I did a LSEA analysis, but appeared an "ACar". Also, there was not a single significant result. I have several issues concerning lipids names parsing, and I`m trying to figure it out with the guys from the facility.

Thank you again,

Luciana

ahmohamed commented 3 years ago

lipidr simply splits lipid names into their Class and Chain(s) components and then uses Chain information to calculate the total chain length and unsaturation. So, I assume your lipids included molecules named ACar(xx:yy). Best guess it refers to Acyl Carnitine, but you should consult the software you used for matching lipids.