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glycogen metabolic process (GO:0005977)

The chemical reactions and pathways involving glycogen, a polydisperse, highly branched glucan composed of chains of D-glucose residues in alpha-(1->4) glycosidic linkage, joined together by alpha-(1->6) glycosidic linkages.

Specific

glycogen biosynthetic process (GO:0005978) glycogen catabolic process (GO:0005980)

General

single-organism carbohydrate metabolic process (GO:0044723) energy reserve metabolic process (GO:0006112) cellular glucan metabolic process (GO:0006073)

References

gene ontology: GO:0005977