Open AccessBiomedical informatics and granularity
Author(s) -
Kumar Anand,
Smith Barry,
Novotny Daniel D.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
comparative and functional genomics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1532-6268
pISSN - 1531-6912
DOI - 10.1002/cfg.429
Subject(s) - granularity , snomed ct , computer science , representation (politics) , ontology , data science , informatics , health informatics , information retrieval , knowledge representation and reasoning , theoretical computer science , artificial intelligence , terminology , programming language , medicine , epistemology , linguistics , engineering , philosophy , electrical engineering , nursing , politics , political science , law , public health
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). Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.