ChEBI -- a database and ontology for chemical entities of biological interest
What you can do:
Search for information on natural or synthetic products used to intervene in the processes of living organisms.
Highlights:
- Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (ChEBI) is a freely available dictionary of molecular entities focused on 'small' chemical compounds.
- The molecular entities in question are either natural products or synthetic products used to intervene in the processes of living organisms.
- Genome-encoded macromolecules (nucleic acids, proteins and peptides derived from proteins by cleavage) are not as a rule included in ChEBI.
- In addition to molecular entities, ChEBI contains groups (parts of molecular entities) and classes of entities.
- ChEBI includes an ontological classification, whereby the relationships between molecular entities or classes of entities and their parents and/or children are specified.
- The latest update includes substructure and similarity searching, a submission tool for authoring of ChEBI datasets by the community and a 30-fold increase in the number of chemical structures stored in ChEBI.
Keywords:
- small molecular entities
- small synthetic molecules
- small natural molecules
- small molecules
- small molecule dictionary
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This record last updated: 02-01-2010