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What is Classificat ion

Chapter 11
Handbook of Research on Distributed Medical Informatics and E-Health
A collection of terms organized in categories. Thus, it includes only the is-a relationship between terms. This enables machines to group together bottom level terms up to their higher level ancestor, e.g. grouping all “lipidic methabolism” related terms under the upper term “metabolism.”
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Clinical and Biomolecular Ontologies for E-Health
Mario Ceresa (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 15
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-002-8.ch011
Abstract
This chapter mainly focuses on biomedical knowledge representation and its use in biomedicine. It first illustrates the existent more relevant bioinformatics resources and why they need to be better integrated. Then it describes what the main problems that machines can encounter in processing the factual biomedical knowledge are, what terminologies, classifications and ontologies are, and why they could help in better organizing and exploiting the bioinformatics resources available online. The authors hope that a concise perspective of the field and a list of selected resources, commented with their scope and usability, may help interested people in quickly understanding the main principles of knowledge representation in biomedicine and its high relevance for modern biomedical research and e-health.
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