title: Ontology for medicinal materials based on traditional Korean medicine.
abstract: We are constructing an ontology for traditional Korean medicine, and we started with medicinal materials to express the relationships between patients' symptoms, diseases and treatments. Biological materials and mineral resources have been used traditionally for patient treatments. The ontology includes various data related to these materials, such as their scientific names, parts of materials used, effectiveness and related oriental organ of the human body.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  http://tkm.kiom.re.kr/ontology/TraditionalKoreanMedicine.rdf-xml.owl (10-20 s using Internet Explorer.)
authors.affiliation: Information Research Center, Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Hyunchul
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Jang
authors.forename: Jinhyun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Sang-Kyun
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Chul
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Soon-Hee
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Bae
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Dong-Myung
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Eom
authors.forename: Mi-Young
authors.initials: MY
authors.lastname: Song
mesh_terms: D004194:Disease; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D055670:Medicine, Korean Traditional