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An Ontology of Relations for Biomedical Informatics
Barry Smith
10 January 2005
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GOAL
Ontology-based integration of biomedical terminologies
SNOMED-CT, FMA, NCI Thesaurus ...
Gene Ontology
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The challenge of integrating genetic and clinical data
obstacles:
1. The associative methodology
2. The granularity gulf
3. Time
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First obstacle:the associative methodology
Ontologies are about word meanings
(‘concepts’, ‘conceptualizations’)
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meningitis is_a disease of the nervous system
unicorn is_a one-horned mammal
cell is_a cell NOS
A is_a B =def.
‘A’ is more specific in meaning than ‘B’
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The linguistic reading of ‘concept’
yields a smudgy view of reality, built out of relations like:
‘synonymous_with’
‘associated_with’
‘has_been_annotated_with’
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Biomedical ontology integration
will never be achieved through integration of meanings or concepts
-- different user communities use different concepts
-- the grid of concepts is too coarse-grained
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The concept approach can’t cope at all with relations like
part_of = def. composes, with one or more other physical units, some larger whole
contains =def. is the receptacle for fluids or other substances
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Digital Anatomist
Thefirst crack in the wall
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The Gene Ontology
European Bioinformatics Institute, ...
Open source
Transgranular
Cross-Species
Components, Processes, Functions
Second crack in the wall
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New GO / OBO Reform Effort
OBO = Open Biological Ontologies
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OBO Library
Gene OntologyMGED OntologyCell OntologyDisease OntologySequence OntologyFungal OntologyPlant OntologyMouse Anatomy OntologyMouse Development Ontology...
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coupled withRelations Ontology (IFOMIS)
suite of relations for biomedical ontology to be submitted to CEN as basis for standardization of biomedical ontologies
Donnelly-Bittner alignment of FMA and GALEN
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Key idea
To define ontological relations like
part_of, develops_from
not enough to look just at universals / types:
we need also to take account of instances and time
(= link to Electronic Health Record built into the ontology itself)
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Kinds of relations
<universal, universal>: is_a, part_of, ...
<instance, universal>: this explosion instance_of the universal explosion
<instance, instance>: Mary’s heart part_of Mary
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part_offor universals
A part_of B =def.
given any instance a of A
there is some instance b of B
such that
a instance-level part_of b
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part_of and has_part are equipolent
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C
c at t
C1
c1 at t1
C'
c' at t
derives_from (ovum, sperm zygote ... )
time
instances
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transformation_of
c at t1
C
c at t
C1
time
same instance
pre-RNA mature RNAchild adult
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transformation_of
C2 transformation_of C1 =def. any instance
of C2 was at some earlier time an instance
of C1
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C
c at t c at t1
C1
embryological development
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C
c at t c at t1
C1
tumor development
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The Granularity Gulf
most existing data-sources are of fixed, single granularity
many (all?) clinical phenomena cross granularities
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Universe/Periodic Table
clinical space
molecule space
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part_of
adjacent_to
contained_in
has_participant
contained_in
intragranular arcs
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part_of
transgranular arcs
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transformation_of
C
c at t c at t1
C1
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time & granularity
C
c at
t
c at
t 1
C
1
tran
sfo
rmat
ion
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cancer staging
C
c at
t
c at
t 1
C
1
tran
sfo
rmat
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• better data (more reliable coding)
• link to EHR via time and instances
• better integration of ontologies
• more powerful tools for logical reasoning
Standardized formal ontology yields:
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and help us to integrate information
on the different levels of molecule, cell, organ, person, population
and so create synergy between medical informatics and bioinformatics at all levels of granularity
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