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The diversity of experimental designs for lipidomic research and the large datasets generated are two obstacles that must be addressed by bioinformatic tools to perform statistical analysis on lipidomics data. Our study provides an objective comparison of the features in two freely accessible web-based bioinformatics tools, MetaboAnalyst 6.0 and LipidOne 2.3, for analyzing an optic nerve regeneration model lipidome. A publicly available lipidomic dataset of the optic nerve axon regeneration model, Xenopus laevis, was used to compare the analytic capabilities of both tools. Though both tools offered univariate and multivariate analysis methods, MetaboAnalyst 6.0 had advantages in customizable data processing, normalization, analysis, and image generation. It also offered consistent multiple-comparison testing correction and comprehensive results\/dataset export. 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