Unified Medical Language System (UMLS)

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class="usa-accordion__content usa-prose"> <ul> <li><a href="/research/umls/licensedcontent/umlsknowledgesources.html">UMLS Release</a> </li> <li><a href="/research/umls/licensedcontent/downloads.html">Terminology and Mapping Downloads</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div> <h2>What is the UMLS?</h2> <p>The UMLS, or Unified Medical Language System, is a set of files and software that brings together many <a class="usa-link" href="https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/sourcereleasedocs/index.html">health and biomedical vocabularies and standards</a> to enable interoperability between computer systems. </p> <hr /> <h2>Get Started</h2> <p><strong><a class="usa-link" href="https://uts.nlm.nih.gov/uts/">Request a license</a> and sign up for a UMLS Terminology Services (UTS) account.</strong></p> <ul> <li>UMLS licenses are issued only to individuals and not to groups or organizations.</li> <li>There is no charge for licensing the UMLS from NLM. NLM is a member of <a class="usa-link" href="http://www.snomed.org/">SNOMED International</a> (owner of SNOMED CT), and there is no charge for SNOMED CT use in the United States and <a class="usa-link" href="http://www.snomed.org/our-customers/members">other member countries</a>. Some uses of the UMLS may require additional agreements with individual terminology vendors.</li> <li>The UTS account allows you to browse, download, and query the UMLS.</li> <li>For more, visit <a class="usa-link" href="https://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/umls.html">how to license and access UMLS data</a></li> </ul> <hr /> <h2>UMLS in Use</h2> <p>You can use the UMLS to:</p> <ul> <li>Link terms and codes between your doctor, your pharmacy, and your insurance company</li> <li>Coordinate patient care among several departments within a hospital</li> <li>Process texts to extract concepts, relationships, or knowledge </li> <li>Facilitate mapping between terminologies</li> <li>Develop an information retrieval system</li> <li>Extract specific terminologies from the Metathesaurus</li> <li>Create and maintain a local terminology</li> <li>Develop a terminology service</li> <li>Research terminologies or ontologies</li> </ul> <hr /> <h2>The Three UMLS Knowledge Sources</h2> <ul> <li><strong><a class="usa-link" href="/research/umls/knowledge_sources/metathesaurus/index.html">Metathesaurus</a></strong>: Terms and codes from many vocabularies, including CPT, ICD-10-CM, LOINC, MeSH, RxNorm, and SNOMED CT. Hierarchies, definitions, and other relationships and attributes.</li> <li><strong><a class="usa-link" href="https://lhncbc.nlm.nih.gov/semanticnetwork/">Semantic Network</a></strong>: Broad categories (semantic types) and their relationships (semantic relations).</li> <li><strong><a class="usa-link" href="https://lhncbc.nlm.nih.gov/LSG/index.html">SPECIALIST Lexicon and Lexical Tools</a></strong>: A large syntactic lexicon of biomedical and general English and tools for normalizing strings, generating lexical variants, and creating indexes.</li> </ul> <hr /> <h2>Accessing the UMLS</h2> <p>The UMLS Terminology Services (UTS) provides three ways to access the UMLS:</p> <h3>Web Browsers</h3> <p>You can search the data through UTS applications:</p> <ul> <li><strong><a class="usa-link" href="https://uts.nlm.nih.gov/uts/umls/home">Metathesaurus Browser</a></strong> - Retrieve UMLS concept information, including CUIs, semantic types, and synonymous terms.</li> <li><strong><a class="usa-link" href="https://uts.nlm.nih.gov/uts/umls/semantic-network/root">Semantic Network Browser</a></strong> - View the names, definitions, and hierarchical structure of the Semantic Network.</li> </ul> <h3>Local Installation</h3> <p>To install the UMLS on your computer, <a class="usa-link" href="/research/umls/licensedcontent/umlsknowledgesources.html">download the files</a>. The MetamorphoSys tool, included with the downloaded files, allows you to customize the UMLS according to your needs. You can then load your customized data into your own database system, such as MySQL or Oracle, or you may browse your data using the MetamorphoSys RRF browser.</p> <h3>Web Services APIs</h3> <p>You can use our <a class="usa-link" href="https://documentation.uts.nlm.nih.gov/">APIs</a> to query the UMLS data within your own application.</p> <hr /> <h2>Citing the UMLS</h2> <p>If you use the UMLS data and tools in your work, please cite:</p> <pre style="white-space: pre-wrap;">UMLS Knowledge Sources [dataset on the Internet]. Release 2024AA. Bethesda (MD): National Library of Medicine (US); 2024 May 6 [cited 2024 Jul 15]. Available from: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/licensedcontent/umlsknowledgesources.html</pre> <p>If you reference the UMLS project in your article, please cite:</p> <pre style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Bodenreider O. The Unified Medical Language System (UMLS): integrating biomedical terminology. Nucleic Acids Res. 2004 Jan 1;32(Database issue):D267-70. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkh061. PubMed PMID: 14681409; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC308795.</pre> <p> Full text: <a class="usa-link" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC308795/">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC308795/</a> <hr /> </div> </div> <div class="tablet:grid-col-4"> <div class="usa-card-group:grid-col-4"> <div class="usa-card__container"> <div class="usa-card__header text-white bg-primary margin-bottom-2"> <h4>Training and Documentation</h4> </div> <div class="usa-card__body"> <p><a class="usa-link" href="/research/umls/faq_main.html">FAQs</a></p> <p><a class="usa-link" href="/research/umls/new_users/online_learning/OVR_001.html">Basics Tutorial</a></p> <p><a class="usa-link" href="/research/umls/user_education/learning_resources.html">Video Tutorials</a></p> <p><a class="usa-link" href="//www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK9676/">Reference Manual</a></p> <p><a class="usa-link" href="/research/umls/knowledge_sources/metathesaurus/release/index.html">Release Notes and Statistics</a></p> 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