Automatic Generation of Structure of Phospholipids

Abstract

An algorithm and a tool for automatic generation of structures of Phospholipids are proposed. The input is a compact representation of the variable part of phospholipids in a systematic way. The output is a structure of the phospholipid represented in the MDL Molfile format. The output molfile describes not only the topological connectivity of atoms but also the 2D coordinate of each atom in order to draw the structure without any overlapping. The variation of phospholipids that the tool covers includes glycerophospholipids (phosphatidylcholines, phosphatidylethanolamines, phosphatidylglicerols, phosphatidylinositols and phosphatidylserines) and sphingophospholipids with arbitrary length and arbitrary number of double bonds at arbitrary positions and in arbitrary cis/trans isomerism.