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 , health informatics , informatics , knowledge representation and reasoning , data science , information retrieval , theoretical computer science , artificial intelligence , terminology , medicine , programming language , epistemology , linguistics , philosophy , nursing , electrical engineering , politics , political science , law , engineering , public health
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.