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Function, Role, and Disposition in Basic Formal Ontology

Robert Arp¹ & Barry Smith¹

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1. National Center for Biomedical Ontology (NCBO) and New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, University at Buffalo

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Received 02 June 2008 15:27 UTC; Posted 03 June 2008

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Bioinformatics

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• formal ontology
• ontology
• function
• role
• disposition
• tendency
• bioinformatics
• Basic Formal Ontology

Abstract:

Numerous research groups are now utilizing Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) as an upper-level framework to assist in the organization and integration of biomedical information. This paper provides elucidation of the three BFO categories of function, role, and disposition, and considers two proposed sub-categories of artifactual function and bio-logical function. The motivation is to help advance the coherent treatment of functions, roles, and dispositions, to help provide the potential for more detailed classification, and to shed light on BFO’s general structure and use.

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Arp, Robert and Smith, Barry. Function, Role, and Disposition in Basic Formal Ontology. Available from Nature Precedings <http://hdl.handle.net/10101/npre.2008.1941.1> (2008)

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