metabolic process

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0008152

The chemical reactions and pathways, including anabolism and catabolism, by which living organisms transform chemical substances. Metabolic processes typically transform small molecules, but also include macromolecular processes such as DNA repair and replication, and protein synthesis and degradation. [ http://openisbn.com/search.php?q=0198547684&isbn=1/ GOC:go_curators ]

Synonyms: metabolism

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Wikipedia:Metabolism

Subsets

goslim_chembl, gocheck_do_not_manually_annotate, goslim_metagenomics, goslim_pir, gosubset_prok, goslim_plant

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Note that metabolic processes do not include single functions or processes such as protein-protein interactions, protein-nucleic acids, nor receptor-ligand interactions.

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2012-10-17T15:46:40Z

has related synonym

single-organism metabolic process

has alternative id

GO:0044236, GO:0044710

has narrow synonym

multicellular organism metabolic process, metabolic process resulting in cell growth, metabolism resulting in cell growth

has obo namespace

biological_process

GO:0008152