Concerns about the deleterious effects of missing data may often determine which characters and taxa are included in phylogenetic analyses. For example, researchers may exclude ta...
Domain reference ontologies represent knowledge about a particular part of the world in a way that is independent from specific objectives, through a theory of the domain. An exam...
Many bioinformaticians seem to shy away from believing that we can have knowledge about a mind-independent biological reality. This paper attempts to show that this tendency is ne...
Bridging levels of ``granularity'' and ``scale'' are frequently cited as key problems for biomedical informatics. However, detailed accounts of what is meant b...
Online medical information, when presented to clinicians, must be well-organized and intuitive to use, so that the clinicians can conduct their daily work efficiently and without ...
Mureen Allen, Leanne M. Currie, Suzanne Bakken, Vi...