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ArticleNucleic acids research2023

ChemFOnt: the chemical functional ontology resource.

David S Wishart, Sagan Girod, Harrison Peters, Eponine Oler, Juan Jovel, Zachary Budinski, Ralph Milford, Vicki W Lui, Zinat Sayeeda, Robert Mah and 7 more

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

17 authors.

David S WishartDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E9, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-3207-2434
Sagan GirodDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E9, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-8667-0907
Harrison PetersDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E9, Canada.
Eponine OlerDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E9, Canada.
Juan JovelDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E9, Canada.
Zachary BudinskiDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E9, Canada.
Ralph MilfordDepartment of Computing Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E8, Canada.
Vicki W LuiDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E9, Canada.
Zinat SayeedaDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E9, Canada.
Robert MahDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E9, Canada.
William WeiDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E9, Canada.
Hasan BadranDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E9, Canada.
Elvis LoDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E9, Canada.
Mai YamamotoMolecular You Corporation, 788 Beatty St., Suite 307, Vancouver, BC V6B 2M1, Canada.
Yannick Djoumbou-FeunangCorteva Agriscience, Indianapolis, IN 46268, USA.
Naama KaruLeiden Academic Centre for Drug Research, Leiden University, Leiden, 2333 CC, The Netherlands.
Vasuk GautamDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E9, Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Chemical Functional Ontology (ChemFOnt), located at https://www.chemfont.ca, is a hierarchical, OWL-compatible ontology describing the functions and actions of >341 000 biologically important chemicals. These include primary metabolites, secondary metabolites, natural products, food chemicals, synthetic food additives, drugs, herbicides, pesticides and environmental chemicals. ChemFOnt is a FAIR-compliant resource intended to bring the same rigor, standardization and formal structure to the terms and terminology used in biochemistry, food chemistry and environmental chemistry as the gene ontology (GO) has brought to molecular biology. ChemFOnt is available as both a freely accessible, web-enabled database and a downloadable Web Ontology Language (OWL) file. Users may download and deploy ChemFOnt within their own chemical databases or integrate ChemFOnt into their own analytical software to generate machine readable relationships that can be used to make new inferences, enrich their omics data sets or make new, non-obvious connections between chemicals and their direct or indirect effects. The web version of the ChemFOnt database has been designed to be easy to search, browse and navigate. Currently ChemFOnt contains data on 341 627 chemicals, including 515 332 terms or definitions. The functional hierarchy for ChemFOnt consists of four functional 'aspects', 12 functional super-categories and a total of 173 705 functional terms. In addition, each of the chemicals are classified into 4825 structure-based chemical classes. ChemFOnt currently contains 3.9 million protein-chemical relationships and ∼10.3 million chemical-functional relationships. The long-term goal for ChemFOnt is for it to be adopted by databases and software tools used by the general chemistry community as well as the metabolomics, exposomics, metagenomics, genomics and proteomics communities.

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Databases, ChemicalSoftwareDatabases, FactualGene OntologyGenomicsProteomics

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PMID36305829
PMCPMC9825615

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