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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:formic acid
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Accession:CHEBI:30751 term browser browse the term
Definition:The simplest carboxylic acid, containing a single carbon. Occurs naturally in various sources including the venom of bee and ant stings, and is a useful organic synthetic reagent. Principally used as a preservative and antibacterial agent in livestock feed. Induces severe metabolic acidosis and ocular injury in human subjects.
Synonyms:related_synonym: Acide formique;   Ameisensaeure;   Formula=CH2O2;   H-COOH;   HCO2H;   HCOOH;   InChI=1S/CH2O2/c2-1-3/h1H,(H,2,3);   InChIKey=BDAGIHXWWSANSR-UHFFFAOYSA-N;   Methanoic acid;   SMILES=[H]C(O)=O;   aminic acid;   bilorin;   formylic acid;   hydrogen carboxylic acid;   methoic acid
 alt_id: CHEBI:24082;   CHEBI:42460;   CHEBI:5145
 xref: BPDB:1749;   CAS:64-18-6;   DrugBank:DB01942;   Gmelin:1008;   HMDB:HMDB0000142;   KEGG:C00058;   KNApSAcK:C00001182;   LIPID_MAPS_instance:LMFA01010040
 xref_mesh: MESH:C030544
 xref: MetaCyc:FORMATE;   PDBeChem:FMT;   PMID:12591956;   PMID:14637377;   PMID:15811469;   PMID:16120414;   PMID:16185830;   PMID:16222862;   PMID:16230297;   PMID:16445901;   PMID:16465784;   PMID:18034701;   PMID:18397576;   PMID:22080171;   PMID:22280475;   PMID:22304812;   PMID:22385261;   PMID:22447125;   PMID:22483350;   PMID:22499553;   PMID:22540994;   PMID:22606986;   PMID:22622393;   PMID:3946945;   PMID:7361809;   Patent:CN101481304;   Reaxys:1209246;   Wikipedia:Formic_acid
 cyclic_relationship: is_conjugate_acid_of CHEBI:15740



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      CHEBI ontology 19874
        role 19844
          application 19689
            solvent 17232
              formic acid 9094
                N-formyl amino acid + 61
                ammonium formate 0
                formamide + 153
                formamidine + 7
                formate ester + 0
                formimidic acid + 0
                formyl group + 9051
                formyl-CoA 0
                magnesium formate dihydrate 0
                phosphonoformic acid + 9
                potassium formate 0
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      CHEBI ontology 19874
        subatomic particle 19872
          composite particle 19872
            hadron 19872
              baryon 19872
                nucleon 19872
                  atomic nucleus 19872
                    atom 19872
                      main group element atom 19811
                        p-block element atom 19811
                          carbon group element atom 19751
                            carbon atom 19748
                              organic molecular entity 19748
                                heteroorganic entity 19505
                                  organochalcogen compound 19268
                                    organooxygen compound 19184
                                      carbon oxoacid 18654
                                        carboxylic acid 18651
                                          monocarboxylic acid 18000
                                            formic acid 9094
                                              N-formyl amino acid + 61
                                              ammonium formate 0
                                              formamide + 153
                                              formamidine + 7
                                              formate ester + 0
                                              formimidic acid + 0
                                              formyl group + 9051
                                              formyl-CoA 0
                                              magnesium formate dihydrate 0
                                              phosphonoformic acid + 9
                                              potassium formate 0
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