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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:biogenic mineral
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Accession:CHEBI:64391 term browser browse the term
Definition:Any biogenic substance that has undergone transformation through the action of geological processes. Thus the term does not include compounds produced entirely by biological processes, such as shells of marine molluscs, oxalate crystals in plant tissues, etc., but does include the constituents of limestones and phosphorites derived from marine organisms.
Synonyms:related_synonym: biogenic minerals;   biomineral;   biominerals
 xref: PMID:11772059;   PMID:12574993;   PMID:12805910;   PMID:15016984;   PMID:15877344;   PMID:17630300;   PMID:21626367;   PMID:22068899;   PMID:22298816;   PMID:22333209;   PMID:22354632;   PMID:22407727;   PMID:22496191;   PMID:3026029;   PMID:7008198



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  CHEBI ontology 19867
    chemical entity 19865
      chemical substance 14397
        biogenic substance 0
          biogenic mineral 0
            biogenic silica 0
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