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).
Kumar
Anand
A
IFOMIS, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken D-66041, Germany. akumar@ifomis.uni-saarland.de
Smith
Barry
B
Novotny
Daniel D
DD