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Re:Ontology for the life sciences: genes, proteins, diseases... by i_am_nomad on Monday January 20, 2020 @07:33PM (#22103267)
One thought about this, ICD9/10 are medical coding standards. They have only a very shallow semantic depth to them, they’re more about completeness and specificity. They don’t map well to what OWL tries to do.
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Re:Ontology for the life sciences: genes, proteins, diseases... by tejtm on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @05:17AM (#22105644)
In particular the ICD evolved as insurance billing codes so the structures they resemble is office paperwork.

The Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) on the other hand is made to represent observable characteristics at various granularities.

[hpo] https://hpo.jax.org/app/

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Re:Ontology for the life sciences: genes, proteins, diseases... by jerven on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @01:57AM (#22104839)
ICD11 is at least going the semantic way ;) e.g. http://id.who.int/icd/entity/1435254666
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