id | GO:0006144   Detailed information
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  name | purine base metabolic process
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  namespace | biological_process
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  def | "The chemical reactions and pathways involving purine bases, one of the two classes of nitrogen-containing ring compounds found in DNA and RNA, which include adenine and guanine." [GOC:go_curators]
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  subset | gosubset_prok
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  is_a | GO:0009112 ! nucleobase metabolic process
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  is_a | GO:0072521 ! purine-containing compound metabolic process
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