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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 19922
        chemical entity 19920
          molecular entity 19920
            polyatomic entity 19877
              heteroatomic molecular entity 19805
                hydroxides 19390
                  organic hydroxy compound 18999
                    polyol 11694
                      alditol 3300
                        alditol derivative + 153
                        alditol phosphate + 148
                        glycerol + 3183
                        glycosyl alditol + 0
                        heptitol + 0
                        hexitol + 134
                        melibiitol 0
                        octitol + 0
                        pentitol + 54
                        tetritol + 1
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      CHEBI ontology 19922
        subatomic particle 19892
          composite particle 19892
            hadron 19920
              baryon 19892
                nucleon 19920
                  atomic nucleus 19892
                    atom 19892
                      main group element atom 19866
                        p-block element atom 19866
                          carbon group element atom 19805
                            carbon atom 19802
                              organic molecular entity 19775
                                heteroorganic entity 19556
                                  organochalcogen compound 19315
                                    organooxygen compound 19205
                                      carbohydrates and carbohydrate derivatives 15294
                                        carbohydrate 15294
                                          alditol 3300
                                            alditol derivative + 153
                                            alditol phosphate + 148
                                            glycerol + 3183
                                            glycosyl alditol + 0
                                            heptitol + 0
                                            hexitol + 134
                                            melibiitol 0
                                            octitol + 0
                                            pentitol + 54
                                            tetritol + 1
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