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Terminology Services as an Infrastructure for Shared Vocabularies
Christopher G. Chute, MD and Harold R. Solbrig

The problem of managing comparable and consistent information occurs across the spectrum of cancer center applications from basic science biology to clinical characterizations.  Furthermore, the semantic linkage of concepts expressed within genomic findings to clinical manifestations poses challenging ontologic problems.  We will overview traditional mechanisms for addressing these terminology and semantic linkage issues and represent how they might become manifest within the caBIG vocabulary workspace.