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SUBMITTER: Goldfain A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2930208 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Goldfain Albert A Smith Barry B Cowell Lindsay G LG
Journal of biomedical informatics 20100302 1
This paper addresses a family of issues surrounding the biological phenomenon of resistance and its representation in realist ontologies. The treatments of resistance terms in various existing ontologies are examined and found to be either overly narrow, internally inconsistent, or otherwise problematic. We propose a more coherent characterization of resistance in terms of what we shall call blocking dispositions, which are collections of mutually coordinated dispositions which are of such a sor ...[more]