Rosse, Cornelius and Mejino, Jose L V (2003) A Reference Ontology for Bioinformatics: The Foundational Model of Anatomy. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 36. pp. 478-500.
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Abstract
The Foundational Model of Anatomy (FMA), initially developed as an enhancement of the anatomical content of UMLS, is a domain ontology of the concepts and relationships that pertain to the structural organization of the human body. It encompasses the material objects from the molecular to the macroscopic levels that constitute the body and associates with them nonmaterial entities (spaces, surfaces, lines and points) required for describing structural relationships. The disciplined modeling approach employed for the development of the FMA relies on a set of declared principles, high level schemes, Aristotelian definitions and a frame-based authoring environment. We propose the FMA as a reference ontology in biomedical informatics for correlating different views of anatomy, aligning existing and emerging ontologies in bioinformatics and providing a structure-based template for representing biological functions.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | ontology, knowledge representation, anatomy, mereotopology, embryology, developmental biology |
| Subjects: | All Projects > Foundational Model of Anatomy |
| Depositing User: | Jim Brinkley |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Aug 2003 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Jul 2017 03:48 |
| URI: | http://sigpubs.si.washington.edu/id/eprint/135 |
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