Recent Advances in Lipidomics

Lipids, which have various biological functions, are closely related to the nosogenesis and aggravation of many diseases. Both qualitative and quantitative determinations of lipids have important biological significance in disease diagnosis and treatment, as well as in drug research and development. With the rapid development of analytical techniques, especially chromatography combined with mass spectrometry, researches on lipids are being improved more quickly. Lipidomics is a sub-emerging field of metabonomics research and could promote the development of metabonomics. In this article, the biological function and analysis of lipids, as well as recent advances in lipidomics are reviewed.