The ChEBI reference database and ontology for biologically relevant chemistry: enhancements for 2013.

ABSTRACT: ChEBI (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/chebi) is a database and ontology of chemical entities of biological interest. Over the past few years, ChEBI has continued to grow steadily in content, and has added several new features. In addition to incorporating all user-requested compounds, our annotation efforts have emphasized immunology, natural products and metabolites in many species. All database entries are now 'is_a' classified within the ontology, meaning that all of the chemicals are available to semantic reasoning tools that harness the classification hierarchy. We have completely aligned the ontology with the Open Biomedical Ontologies (OBO) Foundry-recommended upper level Basic Formal Ontology. Furthermore, we have aligned our chemical classification with the classification of chemical-involv

SUBMITTER: Hastings J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3531142 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature