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.
A mixture of polysaccharides made up from alternating D-galactose and 3,6-anhydro-alpha-L-galactopyranose residues joined by beta-(1->3)-linkages. Some of the galactosyl units may be sulfated. Agaropectin provides the viscous properties of agar.