title: Biomedical informatics and granularity.
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).
authors.affiliation: IFOMIS, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken D-66041, Germany. akumar@ifomis.uni-saarland.de
authors.forename: Anand
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.forename: Barry
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: Daniel D
authors.initials: DD
authors.lastname: Novotny