Biomedical Informatics and Granularity

نویسندگان

  • Anand Kumar
  • Barry Smith
  • Daniel D. Novotny
چکیده

An explicit formal-ontological representation of entities existing at multiple levels of granularity is an urgent requirement for biomedical information processing. We discuss some fundamental principles which can form a basis for such a representation. We also comment on some of the implicit treatments of granularity in currently available ontologies and terminologies (GO, FMA, SNOMED CT).

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Comparative and Functional Genomics

دوره 5  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2004