ChEBI -- Chemical Entities of Biological Interest
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A database and ontology for chemical entities of biological interest.
Highlights:
- 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.
Keywords:
- chemical entity
- chemical entities
- molecular entity
- small molecular compound
- small biological entity
- small chemical compound
- molecular entities
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This record last updated: 08-07-2008