Convert normalized name to HMDB ID

[keremw]

Hi,
Thank you for this wonderful tool.
Is there a way to convert the names found by the tool into HMDB format. Or PubChem ID or LipidMaps ID or Kegg ID? This will me a lot for the analysis of pathways the lipids.
Thank you in advance,
Kerem

[nilshoffmann]

@keremw Thanks for your feedback! If you use the Goslin webapplication, we already provide cross-links to LIPID MAPS and SwissLipids and ChEBI entries based on the perceived level of the lipid name. This is available here: https://apps.lifs-tools.org/goslin-dev in a beta version that incorporates mapping to ChEBI. From those cross-links, you should be able to retrieve other identifiers. Please be aware that lipid identifications on anything other than the full LIPID MAPS name are ambiguous due to the nature of the hierarchical shorthand nomenclature. Be careful when you use any of the matched entries e.g. in pathway models!