metabolic process

Definition

A metabolic process is a cellular process that has been defined as follows:

A cellular process consisting of the biochemical pathways by which a living organism transforms chemical substances. This includes including anabolism (biosynthetic process) and catabolism (catabolic process). Metabolic processes includes the transformation of small molecules, as well macromolecular processes such as DNA repair and replication, protein synthesis and degradation.

Reference

  1. The Gene Ontology Consortium 2021 The Gene Ontology resource: enriching a GOld mine. Nucleic Acids Research. Vol. 49, (D1) pp. D325-D334. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkaa1113
Creator: Michael Rubinigg
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metabolic process

EUPH Code (UID)

[6414]

EUPH IRI

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

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n/a

Created

2023-12-27

Updated

2025-11-28
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Author: Michael Rubinigg

Definition

Author: Michael Rubinigg

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English
metabolic process

Compound noun, Singular

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