Towards the ontological foundations of symbolic biological theories

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 237-250

  Schulz, Stefan ^a   Hahn, Udo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biomedical knowledge representation; Biomedical ontologies

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; FORMAL LOGIC; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

BIOLOGICAL THEORIES; BIOMEDICAL KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; BIOMEDICAL ONTOLOGIES; FORMAL REASONING;

ONTOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; CLASSIFICATION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; HUMAN; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LOGIC; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; ONTOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DECISION TREES; GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PATHOLOGY; SEMANTICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TERMINOLOGY; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 34247173375     PISSN: 09333657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.artmed.2006.12.001     Document Type: Article

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