The Unified Medical Language System (UMLS): integrating biomedical terminology
The Unified Medical Language System (UMLS): integrating biomedical terminology
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DOI：
10.1093/nar/gkh061
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发表时间：
2004-01-01
影响因子：
14.9
通讯作者：
Bodenreider, O
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作者：
Bodenreider, O
统一医学语言系统（http：umlsks.nlm.nih.gov）是由美国国家医学图书馆开发的生物医学词汇库。UMLS集成了来自60多个生物医学词汇表家族的约90万个概念的200多万个名称，以及这些概念之间的1200万个关系。UMLS元词库中集成的词汇包括NCBI分类法、基因本体、医学主题词（MeSH）、OMIM和数字解剖学家符号知识库。UMLS概念不仅相互关联，而且还可能与外部资源（如GenBank）相关联。除了数据之外，UMLS还包括用于自定义元词库（MetamorphoSys）、用于生成概念名称的词汇变体（Ivg）和用于从文本中提取UMLS概念（MetaMap）的工具。UMLS知识源每季度更新一次。所有的词汇表都是免费的，可用于机构内的研究目的，但UMLS用户需要签署许可协议。UMLS知识源以CD-ROM和FTP方式分发。
The Unified Medical Language System (http://umlsks.nlm.nih.gov) is a repository of biomedical vocabularies developed by the US National Library of Medicine. The UMLS integrates 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. UMLS concepts are not only inter-related, but may also be linked to external resources such as GenBank. In addition to data, the UMLS includes tools for customizing the Metathesaurus (MetamorphoSys), for generating lexical variants of concept names (Ivg) and for extracting UMLS concepts from text (MetaMap). The UMLS knowledge sources are updated quarterly. All vocabularies are available at no fee for research purposes within an institution, but UMLS users are required to sign a license agreement. The UMLS knowledge sources are distributed on CD-ROM and by FTP.