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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;   Beilstein:1209246;   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 19918
        role 19894
          application 19729
            solvent 17050
              formic acid 9050
                N-formyl amino acid + 52
                ammonium formate 0
                formamide + 135
                formamidine + 7
                formate ester + 0
                formimidic acid + 0
                formyl group + 9012
                formyl-CoA 0
                magnesium formate dihydrate 0
                phosphonoformic acid + 9
                potassium formate 0
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      CHEBI ontology 19918
        subatomic particle 19916
          composite particle 19916
            hadron 19916
              baryon 19916
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                  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
                                organic group 18995
                                  organic divalent group 18969
                                    organodiyl group 18969
                                      carbonyl group 18922
                                        carbonyl compound 18922
                                          carboxylic acid 18646
                                            monocarboxylic acid 17984
                                              formic acid 9050
                                                N-formyl amino acid + 52
                                                ammonium formate 0
                                                formamide + 135
                                                formamidine + 7
                                                formate ester + 0
                                                formimidic acid + 0
                                                formyl group + 9012
                                                formyl-CoA 0
                                                magnesium formate dihydrate 0
                                                phosphonoformic acid + 9
                                                potassium formate 0
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