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From: Levels and building blocks—toward a domain granularity framework for the life sciences

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BFO’s Basic Granularity Framework. A bona fide partition from a multi-cellular organism to a molecule represents the center of BFO’s granularity framework and reflects direct subclasses of BFO’s ‘object’ for the biological domain. According to BFO, each level of the corresponding bona fide granularity tree must be modeled by its own domain reference ontology (i.e., a molecule ontology, a cell ontology, etc.). Within each such level-specific ontology, BFO’s top-level distinction of ‘object’, ‘fiat object part’, and ‘object aggregate’ indicates a basic fiat partition that orthogonally crosses the bona fide partition. The bona fide partition can therefore be understood as an integrating cross-granular backbone for the different ontologies of a given domain together with their implicit fiat partitions

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