Biomedical Informatics and Granularity

Biomedical Informatics and Granularity

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).

Bioinformatics and Biomedical Informatics

1 Department of Computer Science, Virginia Commonwealth University, 401 West Main Street, P.O. Box 843019, Richmond, VA 23284, USA 2 Inria Sophia Antipolis-Méditerranée Research Center, 2004 Route des Lucioles, BP 93, 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France 3 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Boston University, 111 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA 4Department of Computer Science, I...

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Dental informatics: an emerging biomedical informatics discipline.

Biomedical informatics is a maturing discipline. During the last forty years, it has developed into a research discipline of significant scale and scope. One of its subdisciplines, dental informatics, is beginning to emerge as its own entity. While there is a growing cadre of trained dental informaticians, dental faculty and administrators in general are not very familiar with dental informatic...

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