“…Considering that, typically, current ESI-MS systems offer only 3–4 orders of magnitude linear dynamic range, it is obvious that, for quantitative methods covering a broad range of lipid classes/ species and concentrations in biological samples, a compromise has to be made with respect to number of detected lipids and the linear dynamic range of the method, unavoidably leading to a lower number of detected and identified lipids compared to qualitative methods where, usually, more concentrated extracts are injected. Specifically, those few studies where the number of annotated/ identified lipids exceeded 350 species were focused mainly on in-depth characterization of lipid extracts [32,38,49,57–60], while only 50–300 annotated lipid species were reported when quantification was mentioned as major aim in studies. A deeper examination of particular lipid classes showed that LC-MS-based lipidomics methods most frequently covered phosphatidylcho-lines, followed by other phospholipids (phosphatidylethanolamines, phosphatidylinositols, phosphatidylserines, phosphatidylglycerols), sphingomyelins, di- and tri-acylglycerols, and ceramides (Fig.…”