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CHEBI ONTOLOGY - ANNOTATIONS

The Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (ChEBI) ontology is downloaded weekly from EMBL-EBI at http://www.ebi.ac.uk/chebi/. The data is made available under the Creative Commons License (CC BY 3.0, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). For more information see: Degtyarenko et al. (2008) ChEBI: a database and ontology for chemical entities of biological interest. Nucleic Acids Res. 36, D344–D350.

Term:alditol
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Accession:CHEBI:17522 term browser browse the term
Definition:A carbohydrate that is an acyclic polyol having the general formula HOCH2[CH(OH)]nCH2OH (formally derivable from an aldose by reduction of the carbonyl group).
Synonyms:related_synonym: Formula=(CH2O)nC2H6O2;   Glycitol;   Sugar alcohol;   alditols
 alt_id: CHEBI:13754;   CHEBI:22298;   CHEBI:2556
 xref: KEGG:C00717;   Wikipedia:Glycerin


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  CHEBI ontology 2
    chemical entity 2
      molecular entity 2
        polyatomic entity 2
          heteroatomic molecular entity 2
            hydroxides 1
              organic hydroxy compound 1
                polyol 0
                  alditol 0
                    alditol derivative + 0
                    alditol phosphate + 0
                    glycerol + 0
                    glycosyl alditol + 0
                    heptitol + 0
                    hexitol + 0
                    melibiitol 0
                    octitol + 0
                    pentitol + 0
                    tetritol + 0
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  CHEBI ontology 2
    subatomic particle 2
      composite particle 2
        hadron 2
          baryon 2
            nucleon 2
              atomic nucleus 2
                atom 2
                  main group element atom 2
                    p-block element atom 2
                      carbon group element atom 2
                        carbon atom 2
                          organic molecular entity 2
                            heteroorganic entity 2
                              organochalcogen compound 1
                                organooxygen compound 0
                                  carbohydrates and carbohydrate derivatives 0
                                    carbohydrate 0
                                      alditol 0
                                        alditol derivative + 0
                                        alditol phosphate + 0
                                        glycerol + 0
                                        glycosyl alditol + 0
                                        heptitol + 0
                                        hexitol + 0
                                        melibiitol 0
                                        octitol + 0
                                        pentitol + 0
                                        tetritol + 0
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