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Opinion Anatomical ontologies: names and places in biology Richard Baldock and Albert Burger Address: Medical Research Council, Human Genetics Unit, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, UK. Correspondence: Richard Baldock. E-mail: Richard.Baldock@hgu.mrc.ac.uk Published: 15 March 2005 Genome Biology 2005, 6:108 (doi:10.1186/gb-2005-6-4-108) The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at /2005/6/4/108 ? 2005 BioMed Central Ltd Abstract Ontology has long been the preserve of philosophers and logicians. Recently, ideas from this field have been picked up by computer sc