Yearbook of Medical Informatics, Table of Contents Yearb Med Inform 2013; 22(01): 132-146DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1638845 Original Article Georg Thieme Verlag KG StuttgartFormal Ontologies in Biomedical Knowledge Representation Authors Author Affiliations S. Schulz 1 Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation, Medical University of Graz, Austria 2 Institute of Medical Biometry and Medical Informatics, University Medical Center, Freiburg, Germany L. Jansen 3 Institute of Philosophy, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany Recommend Article Abstract Full Text PDF Download(opens in new window) Keywords KeywordsBiomedical ontology - description logic - formal ontology - knowledge representation - decision support systems References References 1 (Web resources: last accessed Mar 28, 2013) Anderson C. 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