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lipid metabolic process

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The chemical reactions and pathways involving lipids, compounds soluble in an organic solvent but not, or sparingly, in an aqueous solvent. Includes fatty acids; neutral fats, other fatty-acid esters, and soaps; long-chain (fatty) alcohols and waxes; sphingoids and other long-chain bases; glycolipids, phospholipids and sphingolipids; and carotenes, polyprenols, sterols, terpenes and other isoprenoids. [ ]

Term info

Label

lipid metabolic process

Synonyms
  • lipid metabolism
database cross reference
Subsets

goslim_chembl, goslim_generic, goslim_metagenomics, goslim_pir, goslim_agr, goslim_mouse, goslim_pombe, goslim_plant, goslim_yeast, goslim_candida, goslim_aspergillus

has obo namespace

biological_process

id

GO:0006629