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OpenGALEN

GALEN Representation and Integration Language
keywords clinical domains
Concept models, medical terminologies, description logics, knowledge representation, electronic medical records, reuse, not applicable
developed by The GALEN project, OpenGALEN.
released  
status Available to download from opengalen.org.
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description

The GRAIL forms part of the wide range of medical terminology models, methods, architectures and tools developed by GALEN and successor pojects.

The GRAIL is a concept modelling language for developing computer-based medical terminologies. GRAIL is a compositional and generative semantic network knowledge representation language. The GRAIL representation scheme forms the basis of the GALEN Common Reference Model.

references
Rector AL, Bechhofer S, Goble CA, Horrocks I, Nowlan WA, Solomon WD. The GRAIL concept modelling language for medical terminology. Artif Intell Med. 1997 Feb; 9(2): 139-71.

[PubMed]   [Elsevier]

 " The GALEN representation and integration language (GRAIL) has been developed to support effective clinical user interfaces and extensible re-usable models of medical terminology. It has been used successfully to develop the prototype GALEN common reference (CORE) model for medical terminology and for a series of projects in clinical user interfaces within the GALEN and PEN&PAD projects. GRAIL is a description logic or frame language with novel features to support part-whole and other transitive relations and to support the GALEN modelling style aimed at re-use and application independence. GRAIL began as an experimental language. However, it has clarified many requirements for an effective knowledge representation language for clinical concepts. It still has numerous limitations despite its practical successes. The GRAIL experience is expected to form the basis for future languages which meet the same requirements but have greater expressiveness and more soundly based semantics. This paper provides a description and motivation for the GRAIL language and gives examples of the modelling paradigm which it supports. "
Zanstra PE, van der Haring EJ, Flier F, Rogers JE, Solomon WD. Using the GRAIL language for classification management. Stud Health Technol Inform. 1997; 43 Pt A: 441-5.

[PubMed]

 " This paper describes a novel approach in classification management where a formal model of medical semantics is being used for manipulations on existing classification systems. The paper addresses the issue of semi-automatically making specialist classifications that are compatible with the source classification. The examples in this paper are from a limited domain. At the time of the presentation results will be shown of the present modelling work within the GALEN-In-Use project. The model will then contain several thousands of medical procedures from four different classification centres. "
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acknowledgements
Pieter Zanstra, Radboud University Nijmegen
page history
Entry on OpenClinical: 12 July 2003
Last main update: 07 February 2004, 24 October 2006
Design - template v0.2: 24 June 2005.

 
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