Nomenclature

Goslin 2.0 — implementing the latest lipid shorthand nomenclature

Kopczynski D, Hoffmann N, et al.

J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectrometry · 2022 lifs-tools.org/goslin ↗

The idea

The lipid shorthand nomenclature is a living community standard. Goslin 2.0 keeps the parser in step with the latest agreed rules and extends it to systematic IUPAC-IUB fatty-acyl names — the form stored in resources such as LIPID MAPS.

Key concepts

Revised grammars matching the most recent community-agreed shorthand nomenclature.

An additional grammar for systematic IUPAC-IUB fatty-acyl names.

Validation against a shared cross-language test set to guarantee consistent output.

What we found

Broader dialect coverage, now including systematic structural names.

Higher-fidelity normalization with fewer unparseable edge cases.

Identical results across all four language implementations.