transport

I. Literature review

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Nametransport
IDGO_0006810
collection_id

Biological process

Alternative ID

GO:0015457, GO:0015460, GO:0044765

Description

The directed movement of substances (such as macromolecules, small molecules, ions) or cellular components (such as complexes and organelles) into, out of or within a cell, or between cells, or within a multicellular organism by means of some agent such as a transporter or a transporter complex, a pore or a motor protein.

Related synonym

single-organism transport

Comment

Note that this term should not be used for direct annotation. It should be possible to make a more specific annotation to one of the children of this term, for e.g. to transmembrane transport, to microtubule-based transport or to vesicle-mediated transport.

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