An Ontology for Clinical Laboratory Standard Operating Procedures
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چکیده
This paper reports on a knowledge representation model, OCL-SOP, that formally defines key entities pertinent to clinical laboratory procedures. OCL-SOP provides a formal description of laboratory experimental actions, biochemical entities involved, equipment used, input and output data, and the data processing actions. We developed OCL-SOP in collaboration with domain experts. We demonstrate the utility of this knowledge model through a mobile application, SmartSOP, which gives laboratory technicians access to digitized laboratory standard operating procedures (SOPs) and enables searching through the semantically annotated SOPs. OCL-SOP is available at: github.com/fatibaba/EXACT-med/blob/master/OCL-SOP.owl
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