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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 19918
        chemical entity 19916
          molecular entity 19916
            polyatomic entity 19874
              heteroatomic molecular entity 19830
                hydroxides 19389
                  organic hydroxy compound 19003
                    polyol 11711
                      alditol 3302
                        alditol derivative + 152
                        alditol phosphate + 147
                        glycerol + 3181
                        glycosyl alditol + 0
                        heptitol + 0
                        hexitol + 134
                        melibiitol 0
                        octitol + 0
                        pentitol + 54
                        tetritol + 1
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      CHEBI ontology 19918
        subatomic particle 19916
          composite particle 19916
            hadron 19916
              baryon 19916
                nucleon 19916
                  atomic nucleus 19916
                    atom 19916
                      main group element atom 19866
                        p-block element atom 19866
                          carbon group element atom 19811
                            carbon atom 19806
                              organic molecular entity 19806
                                heteroorganic entity 19548
                                  organochalcogen compound 19303
                                    organooxygen compound 19217
                                      carbohydrates and carbohydrate derivatives 15307
                                        carbohydrate 15307
                                          alditol 3302
                                            alditol derivative + 152
                                            alditol phosphate + 147
                                            glycerol + 3181
                                            glycosyl alditol + 0
                                            heptitol + 0
                                            hexitol + 134
                                            melibiitol 0
                                            octitol + 0
                                            pentitol + 54
                                            tetritol + 1
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