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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:chemical role
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Accession:CHEBI:51086 term browser browse the term
Definition:A role played by the molecular entity or part thereof within a chemical context.



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      CHEBI ontology 19818
        role 19790
          chemical role 19421
            acceptor + 17717
            acid + 18728
            antioxidant + 15726
            base + 17661
            buffer + 47
            catalyst + 8274
            chain carrier + 4
            corrosion inhibitor + 0
            crystallisation adjutant + 0
            deaminating agent 0
            donor + 18816
            emulsifier + 5162
            environmental contaminant + 18823
            explosive + 4711
            film-forming compound + 0
            fluorescence quencher + 0
            fuel additive + 3182
            greenhouse gas + 12216
            impurity + 0
            ligand + 6122
            oxidising agent + 11213
            photochemical role + 248
            polymerisation monomer + 70
            reaction intermediate + 2
            reactive oxygen species generator + 938
            reducing agent + 203
            solvent + 16738
            thermal degradation product + 8189
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