title: GALEN's model of parts and wholes: experience and comparisons.
abstract: Part-whole relations play a critical role in the OpenGALEN Common Reference Model. We describe how particular characteristics of the underlying formalism have influenced GALEN's view on partonomy, and in more detail discuss how specific modelling issues have driven development of an extended set of partitive semantic links.
authors.affiliation: Medical Informatics Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rogers
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rector
mesh_terms: D008491:Medical Informatics Applications; D012660:Semantics; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled