lipid metabolic process
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0006629
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. [ GOC:ma ]
Synonyms: lipid metabolism
Term info
goslim_chembl, goslim_generic, goslim_metagenomics, goslim_pir, goslim_drosophila, goslim_agr, prokaryote_subset, goslim_mouse, goslim_pombe, goslim_plant, goslim_yeast, goslim_candida
biological_process
GO:0006629