Change:  The concept of biological function is fundamental not only for the philosophy of biology, but also for formal representations in biomedicine. Biologists describe the role   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 0)

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Change: working on distinguishing system functions from overall benefits...studying how other disciplines have wrestled with this distinction. this abstract has me intrigued about describing functions, and about ontology generally. who knew there were conferences about this stuff?What is a Biological Function? Patricia Diaz International Conference on Formal   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 527)

Change: expanding...holy smokes, they're using a wiki to get to the bottom of it too!)The design of a wiki-based curation system for the Ontology of Functions Robert Hoehndorf, Kay Prüfer, Michael Backhaus, Johann Visagie, Janet Kelso The Joint BioLINK and 9th Bio-Ontologies Meeting - 2006 Download   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 597)

Change: that it admits universals. The NA-analysis provides a metaphysical account of BF, covering aspects that are not emphasized by the other approaches.http://www.onto-med.de/ http://www.onto-med.de(this rabbit hole is expanding...)   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 391)

Change: temporarily parked here while function pages are being built...working on distinguishing system functions from overall benefits...studying how other disciplines have wrestled with this distinction. this abstract has me intrigued about describing functions, and about ontology generally. who knew there were conferences about this stuff?What is a Biological Function?   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 381)

Change: Renamed from GI Systems by ncormier Oct 7 2009, 6:46 PM EDT for: Rename

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