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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:methane
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Accession:CHEBI:16183 term browser browse the term
Definition:A one-carbon compound in which the carbon is attached by single bonds to four hydrogen atoms. It is a colourless, odourless, non-toxic but flammable gas (b.p. -161degreeC).
Synonyms:exact_synonym: tetrahydridocarbon
 related_synonym: CH4;   Formula=CH4;   InChI=1S/CH4/h1H4;   InChIKey=VNWKTOKETHGBQD-UHFFFAOYSA-N;   Methan;   SMILES=[H]C([H])([H])[H];   marsh gas;   metano;   methyl hydride
 alt_id: CHEBI:14585;   CHEBI:25220;   CHEBI:6811
 xref: Beilstein:1718732;   CAS:74-82-8;   Gmelin:59;   HMDB:HMDB0002714;   KEGG:C01438;   MetaCyc:CH4;   PMID:17791569;   PMID:23104415;   PMID:23353606;   PMID:23376302;   PMID:23397538;   PMID:23718889;   PMID:23739479;   PMID:23742231;   PMID:23756351;   PMID:24132456;   PMID:24161402;   PMID:24259373;   Patent:FR994032;   Patent:US2583090;   Reaxys:1718732;   UM-BBD_compID:c0095;   Wikipedia:Methane
 cyclic_relationship: is_conjugate_acid_of CHEBI:29438



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      CHEBI ontology 19818
        role 19790
          chemical role 19421
            greenhouse gas 12216
              methane 10326
                halomethane + 10326
                hydridocarbon(.) 0
                methane clathrate 0
                methanediylidene group 0
                methanetetrayl group 0
                methanetriyl 0
                methanetriyl group 0
                methanimine + 0
                methanylylidene group 0
                methyl 0
                methyl group 0
                methylene group 0
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      CHEBI ontology 19818
        subatomic particle 19816
          composite particle 19816
            hadron 19816
              baryon 19816
                nucleon 19816
                  atomic nucleus 19816
                    atom 19816
                      main group element atom 19761
                        main group molecular entity 19761
                          s-block molecular entity 19612
                            hydrogen molecular entity 19601
                              hydrides 19077
                                organic hydride 18671
                                  organic fundamental parent 18671
                                    hydrocarbon 18417
                                      alkane 14117
                                        methane 10326
                                          halomethane + 10326
                                          hydridocarbon(.) 0
                                          methane clathrate 0
                                          methanediylidene group 0
                                          methanetetrayl group 0
                                          methanetriyl 0
                                          methanetriyl group 0
                                          methanimine + 0
                                          methanylylidene group 0
                                          methyl 0
                                          methyl group 0
                                          methylene group 0
                                          methylidene group 0
                                          methylidyne group 0
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