UMLS -- The Unified Medical Language System
What you can do:
Search for standardized biomedical vocabularies, concepts, and their relationships.
Highlights:
- It is a repository of biomedical vocabularies developed by the US National Library of Medicine, integrating over 2 million names for some 900 000 concepts from more than 60 families of biomedical vocabularies, as well as 12 million relations among these concepts.
- Vocabularies integrated in the UMLS Metathesaurus include the NCBI taxonomy, Gene Ontology, the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), OMIM and the Digital Anatomist Symbolic Knowledge Base.
Keywords:
- terminology tools
- MeSH
- Gene Ontology
- literature mining tools
- literature retrieval tools
Literature & Tutorials:
PubMed Link: UMLS
This record last updated: 05-06-2005