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Granularity, Scale & CollectivittyGranularity, Scale & CollectivittyWhen size does and doesn’t matterWhen size does and doesn’t matter
Alan L Rector
BioHealth Information GroupDepartment of Computer Science
University of Manchester [email protected]
www.cs.man.ac.uk/migwww.co-ode.org
www.clinical-escience.org
O p en G A L E N
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Bridging Scale & GranularityBridging Scale & Granularity“A key challenge for Bioinformatics”“A key challenge for Bioinformatics”
• But what do we mean by “granularity” and “scale”?
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MotivationMotivationThe Problem of Representing Information on TissuesThe Problem of Representing Information on Tissues
Retain the inference that loosing a a finger is an ‘Injury’? Retain the inference that loosing a a finger is an ‘Injury’? Avoid the inference that normal cell turnover is an ‘injury’Avoid the inference that normal cell turnover is an ‘injury’((Loosing a hepatocyte is not an injury to the liver)Loosing a hepatocyte is not an injury to the liver)
Hepatocytes are normally evenly arranged – Hepatocytes are normally evenly arranged – cirrhosis disrupts organisationcirrhosis disrupts organisation
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MotivationMotivation
• Distinction arose in GALEN but was little used– Worked almost entirely at level of gross anatomy
– Defects/conditions/procedures were almost always effects on the whole• Special mechanism to distinguish defects of the “thing as a whole”
• Essential to understanding developmental anatomy and metabolism– Normal cell/organelle/… turnover must not be an injury
• Needed to manage annotation– In different kinds of drawings are annotations refer differently
• Some point at specific things and their relations – “the relations of the stomach are…”
• Others point to repeating patterns of things
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PlanPlan
• Distinguish collectivity & size
• Describe a representation of collectivity in OWL
– Including non-bio generalisations
• Return to the issue of tissues
– Provide a practical ontology schema in OWL
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Collectivity / GranularityCollectivity / GranularitySize doesn’t matterSize doesn’t matter
• Collectivity at many sizes– Galaxies are made up (in part) of collectives of stars
– Audiences are made up (in part) of collectives of people
– Livers are made up (in part) of collectives of hepatocytes
– Cells are made up (in part) of collectives of mitochondria
– Crystals are made up (in part) of collectives atoms
““Collectives: What you can’t see if you get too close”Collectives: What you can’t see if you get too close”
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Scale:Scale:Size MattersSize Matters
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Scaling up Scaling up Size MattersSize Matters
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CollectivityCollectivityEmergent Effects MatterEmergent Effects Matter
• The time for the hourglass is a feature of the collective of sand (and the glass)• Would you try to predict it from examing the
individual grains?
• The strength of the cable is a feature of the collective of the fibres and how the go together• We do know how to predict it;
• But would you want to travel on a bridge held up by cables that had not been tested?
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Collectivity:Collectivity:Patterns MatterPatterns Matter
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CollectivesCollectives
• “Collectives” are made up of “grains”
• “Collectives” are not mathematical sets
– Collectives’ identity does not depend on the identity of their grains• Collectives can gain or lose grains without changing their identity
• Being a collective (“collectivity”) is independent of size
– Information patterns about Collectives and grains are similar at all physical sizes from subatomic to cosmological• Although collectives are normally larger than their grains
– (Except for odd quantum effects)
• Not “granular partitions”
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Collectivity & SizeCollectivity & Size
• Collectivity– Grains vs Collectives
• Cell vs CellsSand vs BeachPerson vs Crowd
• Size range– Large vs Small
• Cosmological vs ‘everyday’– Relativistic vs Newtonian
• ‘Everyday’ vs microscopic– Gravity vs electrostatic
• Macroscopic vs quantum– Causality vs probability
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Collectivity is not…Collectivity is not…
• Level of detail– Information about either collectives or grains can be in either
greater or lesser detail
• Ontological density– How many closely related concepts are represented
• Level of specialisation/generalisation or depth of ontology– There can be information about entities at any level of
specialisation
• Connectivity– How many relations link the entities in the ontology
How dense the network
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DeterminateDeterminate & & GranularGranular Parts Parts
• “Determinate parts”
– Fingers, lobes of liver, eyes, bolts, pistons, handles,…• Determinate in number;
• Directly part of other determinate parts of the whole
• Removing one determinate part diminishes the whole– Cutting off my finger diminishes my hand
• “Granular parts”
– Cells of skin of finger, liver cells, cones of retina, fibers of cable, …• Indeterminate in number
• Part of the whole via being a grain of a collective that is a determinate part of the whole
• Removing one granular part does not diminish the whole– Rubbing cells off my finger does not diminish my hand
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ContentionsContentions
• Information about collectives is distinct from information about their individual grains– There are “emergent” characteristics and effects of collectives
• Information about granular parts is treated differently from information about determinate parts – Much information about determined parts is propagated transitively to
the whole
– Little information about about granular parts is propagated transitively to the whole
– A mechanism is required to control in which questions pertain to which situation
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Representation Representation
• A hierarchy of relations (properties)
– is_part_of Mereological parthood transitive, reflexive, antisymmetric
• is_determinate_part_of Determinate parthood transitive, reflexive,
antisymmetric
• is_grain_of Granular parthoodintransitive, irreflexive,
antisymmetric (antitransitive?)
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Basic SchemasBasic Schemas
• Collective_of_X Collective & has_grain ONLY Xs
• Determinate_part_of_Object_X Object & is_determinate_part_of SOME Object_X
• Granular_part_of_Object_X Grain_Y AND is_grain_of SOME (Collective AND is_determinate_part_of SOME Object_X AND has_grain ONLY Grain_Y)
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ExampleExample
• Lobe_of_Liver Lobe & is_determinate_part_of SOME Liver
• Hepatocyte Cell & is_grain_of SOME (Collective AND is_determinate_part_of SOME Liver AND has_grain ONLY Hepatocyte)
Doesn’t quite work…Doesn’t quite work…
Problem with relation between Collectives & LiverProblem with relation between Collectives & LiverThere is more information to expressThere is more information to express
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Mixtures, Patterns, & TissuesMixtures, Patterns, & Tissues
normal
cirrhotic
normalimage
abnormaldiagram
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Collectives can manifest patternsCollectives can manifest patterns
• Normal_hepatocyte_collective Collective AND has_grain ONLY Hepatocyte
AND has_pattern SOME Quasi_hexagonal
But…But…
There is more than just hepatocytesThere is more than just hepatocytes connective tissues, interstitial fluid, … connective tissues, interstitial fluid, …
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Digression to Blood & blood cellsDigression to Blood & blood cells
• To a limited level of detail…
– Blood is a mixture of plasma red and white blood cells …
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MixturesMixtures
• Schema – Amount_of_Mixture_X_and_Y
Amount_of_ Mixture AND has_ingredient SOME X AND has_ingredient SOME Y
– Amount_of_Normal_blood Amount_of_Mixture AND has_ingredient SOME Plasma has_ingredient SOME (Collective AND has_grain SOME_&_ONLY Red_Blood_cell ) has_ingredient SOME (Collective AND has_grain ONLY White_Blood_cell )
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Proportions – Proportions – “Reify” the relation “has_ingredient”“Reify” the relation “has_ingredient”
to “Proportion”to “Proportion”
• Schema– Amount_of_Mixture_of_X1_and_X2_and_…_and_Xn
Amount_of_Mixture AND has_proportion SOME (Proportion AND is_of_ingredient SOME X1 AND has_percentage VALUE p1) AND has_proportion SOME (Proportion AND is_of_ingredient SOME X2 AND has_percentage VALUE p2) AND …AND has_proportion SOME (Proportion AND is_of_ingredient SOME Xn AND has_percentage VALUE pn)
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ExampleExample
– Amount_of_Normal_Blood Amount_of_Mixture AND
has_proportion SOME (Proportion AND is_of_ingredient SOME Amount_of_Plasma AND has_percentage VALUE 59) AND has_proportion SOME (Proportion AND is_of_ingredient SOME (Collective AND has_grain ONLY Red_blood_cell) AND has_percentage VALUE 39) AND AND has_proportion SOME (Proportion AND is_of_ingredient SOME (Collection AND has_grain ONLY White_blood_cell) AND has_percentage VALUE 2)
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Simplification trickSimplification trick
• Use the property hierarchy
– has_ingredient (transitive)• has_proportion (non-transitive)• is_of_ingredient (non-transitive)
• Then
– X has_ingredient SOME I• X has_proportion SOME (P is_of_ingredient SOME I)
• Expressed in usual logic notationX has_proportion SOME (P is_of_ingredient SOME I)
X has_ingredient SOME I
• Therefore we shall ignore proportions for the remainder of paper
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Back to LiverBack to LiverSome bits from FMA (I hope)Some bits from FMA (I hope)
– Liver
“(right / left) Lobe of liver”• …
– “Parenchyma of (right/left) lobe of liver”
» Lamina of liver
“Hepatocyte”
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Material of the LiverMaterial of the Liver
• Amount_of_liver_material– Amount_of_mixture AND
has_ingredient SOME (Collection AND has_grain ONLY Hepatocyte) has_ingredient SOME Amount_of_interstitial_fluid …
• Liver_lamina – has_determinate_part SOME Amount_of_liver_material AND
has_determinate_part SOME Bile_canniculus
• Liver_parenchyma – Collection has_grain SOME_&_ONLY Liver_lamina
• Lobe_of_liver – Object AND is_constituted_by SOME Liver_parenchyma AND
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And for a GalaxyAnd for a Galaxy
• Galaxy_with_black_whole_core – Astronomical_object AND
is_constituted_by SOME Mixture AND has_ingredient SOME_&_ONLY Star has_ingredient SOME Amount_of_dust_ …has_determinate_part SOME Galactic_core_black_hole
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And TilesAnd Tiles
• Penrose_tiling – Collective AND
has_grain SOME_&_ONLY Tiles has_pattern SOME Penrose_tiling_pattern)
• Penrose_wall_tiling – Physical_object AND
is_constituted_of (Mixture AND has_ingredient SOME Penrose_tiling has_ingredient SOME Grout has_ingredient SOME Adhesive)
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Implementing itImplementing itAugmenting the Property HierarchyAugmenting the Property Hierarchy
NB: Gross_parts include ingredients
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Slightly Simplified View Implemented in OWLSlightly Simplified View Implemented in OWLBlood First (simpler)Blood First (simpler)
granular part only
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And the LiverAnd the Liver
granular part only
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Determinate CollectivesDeterminate Collectives
• Entities where there is information both about the individual grains and the collective
– the spine, fingers, etc.
• Requires allowing things to be both a determinate and granular parts
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Cognitivist vs Realist PerspectiveCognitivist vs Realist Perspective
• Lobe_of_liver – ???? SOME
Amount_of_liver_parenchyma_AND …
• What should the relation be?– Cognitivist: is_constituted_by (Guarino & Welty/DOLCE)
• There are two co-existing entities– “The statue and the clay of which the statue is made”
» The liver and the material of which the liver is made
– Realist: identity• There is just one entity
– The statue is identical to the clay of which it is made» The liver is the material of which it is made
• Whichever, information about collective effects must be conveyed
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What does it account for?What does it account for?
• Where to ascribe information on emergent – Chacteristics - e.g. patterns
• on Collective or Mixture
– Relations – e.g. concentrations• on Proportion
• When are part-whole relations transitive?– The loss (gain) of granular parts does not necessarily diminish
(augment) the whole
– The loss (gain) of determinate parts necessarily diminishes (augments) the whole
• Defects of determinate parts are defects of the whole;defects of granular parts are not– Cell turnover does not damage the liver/skin/…
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What is not accounted forWhat is not accounted for
• Detailed account of collectives themselves
– Interaction of determinate parts and collectives• The bile canniculus in the Liver lamina
• Leaves open the issue of “empty collectives”
– ONLY vs SOME_&_ONLY
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What is an artefact of Description What is an artefact of Description Logic/OWL?Logic/OWL?
• Extension beyond binary relational
– Little change – collectives and proportions would still need to be reified.
• Any two-valued logic
– ‘Vagueness’ of collectives would still be underspecified
• Higher order logic
– Proportions might, or might not, not need to be reified• Many things can be said about the Proportion other than its
concentration
• Extension to fuzziness or other multivalued logic
– Better characterisation of vagueness of “Collectives”
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What the notion of collective deniesWhat the notion of collective denies
• Distinct levels of collectivity– Can occur at any size
• Hair vs hairs and macroscopic• Cell vs cells is microscopic• Mitochondrion vs mitochondria is sub-microscopic• Stars vs galaxies is astronomical
– Transitions between individual and collective to not form neat boundaries• Although if we jump far enough in scale we are likely also
to change level of collectivity
• “Collectivity” is a neologism– Is there a better alternative?
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SummarySummary
• Objects often act as collectives
• There are emergent effects to be attributed to the collective rather than to its grains
• The transition from grain to collective is not transitive
• Collectives occur at all size scales
• A good approximation can be represented in OWL
• Future work
– Collectives needed for a language to represent information about what pathologists and others usually call “tissues”