AmiGO 2: Term Details for "glycogen biosynthetic process" (GO:0005978)

Accession: GO:0005978
Name: glycogen biosynthetic process
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: glycogen anabolism, glycogen biosynthesis, glycogen formation, glycogen synthesis
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the formation of glycogen, a polydisperse, highly branched glucan composed of chains of D-glucose residues. Source: ISBN:0198506732
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0005978 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to glycogen biosynthetic process (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to glycogen biosynthetic process (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for glycogen biosynthetic process (excluding "regulates").

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For more information, please see the ontology relation documentation.

subject	relation	object
glycogen biosynthetic process	is_a	glucan biosynthetic process (GO:0009250)
glycogen biosynthetic process	RO:0004008	glycogen (CHEBI:28087)
glycogen biosynthetic process	is_a	glycogen metabolic process (GO:0005977)

subject	relation	object
liver (UBERON:0002107)	site_of	glycogen biosynthetic process
regulation of glycogen biosynthetic process (GO:0005979)	RO:0002211	glycogen biosynthetic process
negative regulation of glycogen biosynthetic process (GO:0045719)	RO:0002212	glycogen biosynthetic process
positive regulation of glycogen biosynthetic process (GO:0045725)	RO:0002213	glycogen biosynthetic process