Term Information

Accession
GO:0044283
Name
small molecule biosynthetic process
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
small molecule biosynthesis
Alternate IDs
None
Definition
The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the formation of small molecules, any low molecular weight, monomeric, non-encoded molecule. Source: GOC:curators, GOC:vw, GOC:pde
Comment
Small molecules in GO include monosaccharides but exclude disaccharides and polysaccharides.
History
See term history for GO:0044283 at QuickGO
Subset
prokaryote_subset
Feedback
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Parents of small molecule biosynthetic process (GO:0044283)
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small molecule biosynthetic process [is_a relation] is_a  biosynthetic process (GO:0009058)
small molecule biosynthetic process [is_a relation] is_a  small molecule metabolic process (GO:0044281)
Children of small molecule biosynthetic process (GO:0044283)
subject[Reorder by subject] relation[Reorder by relation] object[Reorder by object]
ketone biosynthetic process (GO:0042181) [is_a relation] is_a  small molecule biosynthetic process
ketone body biosynthetic process (GO:0046951) [is_a relation] is_a  small molecule biosynthetic process
vitamin biosynthetic process (GO:0009110) [is_a relation] is_a  small molecule biosynthetic process
nucleobase-containing small molecule biosynthetic process (GO:0034404) [is_a relation] is_a  small molecule biosynthetic process
organic acid biosynthetic process (GO:0016053) [is_a relation] is_a  small molecule biosynthetic process
formaldehyde biosynthetic process (GO:0046293) [is_a relation] is_a  small molecule biosynthetic process
alcohol biosynthetic process (GO:0046165) [is_a relation] is_a  small molecule biosynthetic process
monosaccharide biosynthetic process (GO:0046364) [is_a relation] is_a  small molecule biosynthetic process
hypochlorous acid biosynthetic process (GO:0002149) [is_a relation] is_a  small molecule biosynthetic process
urate biosynthetic process (GO:0034418) [is_a relation] is_a  small molecule biosynthetic process
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