Biomedical informatics and granularity

Anand Kumar; Barry Smith; Daniel D. Novotny

doi:10.1002/cfg.429

Biomedical informatics and granularity

Anand Kumar
, Barry Smith
, Daniel D. Novotny

Philosophy

Saarland University
SUNY Buffalo

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Abstract

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).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	501-508
Number of pages	8
Journal	Comparative and Functional Genomics
Volume	5
Issue number	6-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/cfg.429
State	Published - Aug 2004

Keywords

Clinical bioinformatics
Knowledge representation
Levels of granularity
Life sciences data integration
Medical informatics
Ontology

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