[Ontology-editors] small molecule metabolism

Midori Harris midori at ebi.ac.uk
Thu Apr 9 08:56:07 PDT 2009


> Do you view cabrohydrate as a macromolecule? Either CHEBI or Wikipedia should 
> be modified here

I think polysaccharides are macromolecules, but monosaccharides and 
disaccharides aren't. Oligosaccharides (at least 3, but fewer than "many" 
monosaccharide residues) are in the ever-confounding grey area; ChEBI 
doesn't put them under macromolecule, and I don't object to that.

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