LipidBank is an open, publicly free database of natural lipids including fatty acids, glycerolipids, sphingolipids, steroids, and various vitamins.

Prefix

lipidbank

Keywords

chemical structure image/movie lipid molecule structure

Links

Homepage

Publications

2002 [LIPIDBANK for Web, the newly developed lipid database]

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in LipidBank should match this regular expression:
^\w+\d+$

Example Local Unique Identifier

BBA0001   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from LipidBank should match this regular expression:
^lipidbank:\w+\d+$

Example CURIE

lipidbank:BBA0001

Contact

Etsuko Yasugi   0000-0003-1898-4426

Mappings from records in Bioregistry to external registries comprises the metaregistry. This resource has 6 mappings to external registries with 3 unique external prefixes.

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier BBA0001 is used to demonstrate the providers available for LipidBank. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Additional providers curated in the Bioregistry are listed here. These are typically inherited from Identifiers.org or Prefix Commons, and need extra curation.