NCI DTS Browser

Welcome to the NCI Terminology Browser

The NCI Terminology Browser* can be used to view and search the NCI Thesaurus and other biomedical vocabularies. Select the vocabulary that you want to view by using the radio buttons below, and then click the "Connect" button. See the Quick Start Guide to help you get going using the NCI Terminology Browser.
The NCI Thesaurus contains controlled terminology used at the NCI. By default the NCI Terminology Browser displays the NCI Thesaurus, which is a product of the NCI's Enterprise Vocabulary Service, a collaborative effort of the NCI Office of Communications and the NCI Center for Bioinformatics. The NCI Thesaurus is an open content vocabulary that you are free to use with virtually no restrictions. It is built so that both humans and computers can interpret it. If you are interested in programming your systems to use the vocabularies available at the NCI, see the caCORE pages on the NCICB Website for a description of the API and license terms.

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NCI_Thesaurus Published by NCI, this knowledgebase contains the working vocabulary used in NCI data systems. It covers clinical, translational and basic research as well as administrative terminology. August 2, 2004 (04.08b)

Other Terminologies:

SNOMED_CT Published by SNOMED International. SNOMED Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT) spans clinical specialties. In July 2003, the US National Library of Medicine signed a licensing agreement for the use of SNOMED CT through the UMLS. NCI is making SNOMED/CT available on our Terminology Server as a convenience to the cancer community. Use of SNOMED CT is governed by the terms of the UMLS SNOMED/CT license (see here). July 2003

GO GO Ontology, published by the Gene Ontology Consortium. October 2003

MGED_Ontology The MGED Ontology, produced by the MGED Society. Concepts, definitions, terms, and resources for standardized description of a microarray experiment in support of MAGE v.1. The MGED ontology is divided into the MGED Core ontology which is intended to be stable and in synch with MAGE v.1; and the MGED Extended ontology which adds further associations and classes not found in MAGE v.1. 1.1.9

VA_NDFRT Published by the US Veterans' Administration. National Drug File Reference Terminology covers clinical drugs used at the VA. December 2003

LOINC Published by the The Regenstrief Institute, the Logical Observation Identifier Names and Codes covers clinical laboratory terminology. local 3MN (11.01.01)

UWD_Visual_Anatomist Published by the University of Washington, this knowledgebase covers human anatomy. local (7.30.01)

CTRM Published by NCI, this knowledgebase currently contains human and mouse terminology. CTRM is an experimental knowledgebase in which ideas about representing vocabulary are tried out before possible inclusion in NCI Thesaurus. 11.01.02

Pre_Release_NCI_Thesaurus This is a snapshot of the development version of the NCI Thesaurus. It is ONLY intended to facilitate early review by our collaborators. It is NOT for use in any production application, and is sometimes shut down without warning. It has NOT been processed for editing history. It has NOT gone through quality control. It is NOT necessarily a release candidate for publication. In the Terminology Browser, the "Printable Page" and "History" features will NOT work with this version of the Thesaurus. 04.09c (9.24.04)

* NCI Terminology Browser is a modified version of the servlet provided with Apelon's Distributed Terminology System (DTS).

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