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| Name: | Foundational Model of Anatomy (FMA) |
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| Description: | The FMA is a reference ontology for the domain of anatomy. It represents the canonical, phenotypic structure of the human body, spatial-structure and relations that characterize the physical organization of the body at all salient levels of granularity. |
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| Recommended by: | Barry Smith, Joe Bloggs |
| Submitted by: | MichaelUschold |
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| OntologyURI: | 1 (0) |
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The FMA is a reference ontology for the domain of anatomy. It is a symbolic representation of the phenotypic structure of the human body. Over 75,000 anatomical classes ranging from macroscopic to molecular level are organized in an Aristotelian-type class subsumption hierarchy, using the Protege frame-based knowledge acquisition tool. The ontology is made available by various servers that are part of the Digital Anatomist Information System. The symbolic modeling of the structure of the human body is in a form that is understandable to humans and is also navigable and interpretable by machine-based systems. The Foundational Model of Anatomy ontology is one of the information resources integrated in the distributed framework of the Anatomy Information System developed and maintained by the Structural Informatics Group at the University of Washington.
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