Yearbook of Medical Informatics, Inhaltsverzeichnis Yearb Med Inform 2013; 22(01): 132-146DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1638845 Original Article Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart Formal Ontologies in Biomedical Knowledge Representation S. Schulz 1 Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation, Medical University of Graz, Austria 2 Institute of Medical Biometry and Medical Informatics, University Medical Center, Freiburg, Germany , L. Jansen 3 Institute of Philosophy, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany › Institutsangaben Artikel empfehlen Abstract Volltext als PDF herunterladen Keywords KeywordsBiomedical ontology - description logic - formal ontology - knowledge representation - decision support systems Referenzen References 1 (Web resources: last accessed Mar 28, 2013) Anderson C. The end of theory: the data deluge makes the scientific method obsolete. 2008 http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/16-07/pb_theory 2 Müller H, Hanbury A, Al Shorbaji N. 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