Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Volume 39, Issue 3 , Pages 237-250 , March 2007

Towards the ontological foundations of symbolic biological theories

  • Stefan Schulz

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medical Informatics, Freiburg University Hospital, Stefan-Meier-Strasse 26, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +49 761 203 3252; fax: +49 761 203 6711.
    • ,
  • Udo Hahn

      Affiliations

    • Jena University Language and Information Engineering (JULIE) Lab, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany

Received 22 December 2004 ,Revised 5 December 2006 ,Accepted 6 December 2006.

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doi: 10.1016/j.artmed.2006.12.001

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Volume 39, Issue 3 , Pages 237-250 , March 2007

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