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UMLS Semantic Network

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The US National Library of Medicine has developed the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS), whose goal it is to provide integrated access to a large number of biomedical resources by unifying the vocabularies that are used to access those resources. The UMLS Metathesaurus interrelates more than 150 controlled vocabularies in the biomedical domain. The UMLS coverage is quite extensive, including not only many concepts in clinical medicine, but also a large number of concepts applicable to the broad domain of the life sciences. In order to provide an overarching conceptual framework for all UMLS concepts, the UMLS Semantic Network, an upper-level ontology, has been developed. The Semantic Network provides a consistent categorization of all concepts represented in the UMLS Metathesaurus. The links between the semantic types provide the structure for the network and represent important relationships in the biomedical domain. The Semantic Network consists of (1) a set of broad subject categories, or Semantic Types, that provide a consistent categorization of all concepts represented in the UMLS Metathesaurus, and (2) a set of useful and important relationships, or Semantic Relations, that exist between Semantic Types.

Homepage https://semanticnetwork.nlm.nih.gov/

Countries that developed this resource United States

Created in 1990

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How to cite this record FAIRsharing.org: UMLS Semantic Network; UMLS Semantic Network; DOI: https://doi.org/10.25504/FAIRsharing.119q9t; Last edited: Jan. 29, 2020, 10:53 a.m.; Last accessed: Aug 02 2021 12:08 a.m.

Publication for citation An upper-level ontology for the biomedical domain. McCray AT; Comp Funct Genomics ; 2008; 10.1002/cfg.255;

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Record added: Oct. 24, 2017, 9:41 a.m.
Record updated: Jan. 29, 2020, 10:53 a.m. by The FAIRsharing Team.

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Before: The US National Library of Medicine has developed the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS)|whose goal it is to provide integrated access to a large number of biomedical resources by unifying the vocabularies that are used to access those resources. The UMLS interrelates more than 60 controlled vocabularies in the biomedical domain. The UMLS coverage is quite extensive|including not only many concepts in clinical medicine|but also a large number of concepts applicable to the broad domain of the life sciences. In order to provide an overarching conceptual framework for all UMLS concepts|the UMLS Semantic Network|an upper-level ontology|has been developed. The Semantic Network provides a consistent categorization of all concepts represented in the UMLS. The links between the semantic types provide the structure for the network and represent important relationships in the biomedical domain. The Semantic Network consists of (1) a set of broad subject categories|or Semantic Types|that provide a consistent categorization of all concepts represented in the UMLS Metathesaurus|and (2) a set of useful and important relationships|or Semantic Relations|that exist between Semantic Types.
After: The US National Library of Medicine has developed the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS)|whose goal it is to provide integrated access to a large number of biomedical resources by unifying the vocabularies that are used to access those resources. The UMLS Metathesaurus interrelates more than 150 controlled vocabularies in the biomedical domain. The UMLS coverage is quite extensive|including not only many concepts in clinical medicine|but also a large number of concepts applicable to the broad domain of the life sciences. In order to provide an overarching conceptual framework for all UMLS concepts|the UMLS Semantic Network|an upper-level ontology|has been developed. The Semantic Network provides a consistent categorization of all concepts represented in the UMLS Metathesaurus. The links between the semantic types provide the structure for the network and represent important relationships in the biomedical domain. The Semantic Network consists of (1) a set of broad subject categories|or Semantic Types|that provide a consistent categorization of all concepts represented in the UMLS Metathesaurus|and (2) a set of useful and important relationships|or Semantic Relations|that exist between Semantic Types.

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ISO/CD 20691 Collection - DRAFT

Systems Medicine

Support

General

online documentation	Current Semantic Types
online documentation	UMLS Semantic Network Documentation
online documentation	Current Relations in the UMLS Semantic N ...

Additional Information

Contact

Olivier Bodenreider ORCID

External Links

Bioportal

http://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/STY

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Schemas

No XSD schemas defined

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Conditions of Use

Applies to: Data use

Data Access

Download (TGZ)	https://semanticnetwork.nlm.nih.gov/download/sn_current.tgz
AgroPortal: Browse / Download	http://agroportal.lirmm.fr/ontologies/STY

Publications

An upper-level ontology for the biomedical domain.

McCray AT
Comp Funct Genomics 2008

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STY Ontology Display

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AgroPortal
AgroPortal is an ontology repository for agronomy as well as food, plant, agriculture and biodiversity sciences. It provides ontology hosting, search, versioning, visualization, comment, and recommendation; enables semantic annotation; stores and exploits ontology alignments; and enables interoperation with the semantic web. To align with the needs of the agronomy community, AgroPortal uses SKOS vocabularies and trait dictionaries) and supported features (offering detailed metadata and advanced annotation capabilities).

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This record is maintained by olivier@nlm.nih.gov

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U.S. National Library of Medicine (Government body) Lead

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