Dispositions and the Infectious Disease Ontology

Authors:
Albert Goldfain;Barry Smith;Lindsay G. Cowell
Affiliations:
Blue Highway, Syracuse, NY, USA;University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA;Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2010 conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference (FOIS 2010)
Year:
2010

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Abstract

This paper addresses the use of dispositions in the Infectious Disease Ontology (IDO). IDO is an ontology constructed according to the principles of the Open Biomedical Ontology (OBO) Foundry and uses the Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) as an upper ontology. After providing a brief introduction to disposition types in BFO and IDO, we discuss three general techniques for representing combinations of dispositions under the headings blocking dispositions, complementary dispositions, and collective dispositions. Motivating examples for each combination of dispositions is given along with a specific use case in IDO. Description logic restrictions are used to formalize statements relating to these combinations.