formaldehyde

Structure

Identity from ChEBI. Not evidence — none of it carries a grade.

What it touches on the way

A finding says formaldehyde moved an endpoint. This is the biology in between: the proteins and reactions it runs through to get there. It is where to look for the two things a list of findings cannot answer — why a result might happen, and what else acts on the same machinery.

37 of these are proteins with a page of their own, and that is the door: a protein page says what else it carries, which is how one compound leads to the next.

What the reference databases state

The section above shows paths a projection assembled. This is the reference layer itself, one step from formaldehyde: what the cleared databases state it reacts with, is carried by, is converted to and takes part in, whether or not a projection has walked it yet.

Every name this graph resolves to formaldehyde. Searching any of them lands here.

Also called

FORMALINMethanalMethylene oxideOxomethaneOxomethylene