[Ontology-editors] small molecule metabolism

[Valerie Wood]

A paper I was reading today refers to this subset:
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/324/5923/85
and refers to S. cerevisiae "metabolism" as comprising ~1200 orfs and 
800 metabolites

I wonder if there is a way to define these metabolic processes that does 
not refer to molecule size or type at all...
...




Midori Harris wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Val has asked about adding a term to group small molecule metabolism 
> separately from macromolecule metabolism. The initial request came a 
> few months ago, and has been reiterated today. We've been hung up on 
> how such a term could be named and defined, since "small molecule" is 
> kind of a woolly concept that is hard to map onto, say, one branch of 
> ChEBI.
>
> Does anyone have any clever ideas for the ontology? Or are there tools 
> that could help with Val's genome-wide analysis using the existing GO 
> graph?
>
> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2106200&group_id=36855&atid=440764 
>
>
> Thanks,
> midori
>



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