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.
An L-alpha-amino acid which is L-aspartic acid or any of the essential amino acids biosynthesised from it (asparagine, lysine, methionine, threonine and isoleucine). A closed class.
Synonyms:
related_synonym:
aspartate family amino acids; aspartic acid family amino acid; aspartic acid family amino acids; oxaloacetate family amino acid; oxaloacetate family amino acids; oxaloacetate/aspartate family amino acid; oxaloacetate/aspartate family amino acids