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LexEVS Adopter Community

MD Anderson

MD Anderson is using a local LexEVS server as part of their enterprise infrastructure. Special resources were dedicated to resolving initial software compatibility and other issues, ensuring a successful deployment. NCI EVS terminology browsers have also been deployed, as have NCIt and other EVS terminology resources. This is an example of leveraging a wide range of EVS resources and services in support of the research and clinical enterprise infrastructure of a leading cancer center.

Emory University

Emory University is using LexEVS to develop and host local ontologies. Uses include terminology support for an analytic data warehouse, which incorporates custom patient classes defined using ICD-9 codes. This is an example of an academic medical center deploying and extending EVS components.

GE

GE is developing a platform called Qualibria, which includes LexEVS as a terminology server. VKC has been working with GE since 2008. As part of the collaboration, GE created an extension to the LexEVS 5.1 API based on the Common Terminology Services specification. GE provided the code for that extension, which is now available to the community via the VKC web site. This is an example of NCI open source technology being bundled into a commercial healthcare product.

Mayo Clinic Health Solutions and Mayo Clinic Global Products and Services

These Mayo Clinic units are in the process of deploying LexEVS for terminology hosting and management. The project will eventually migrate to the GE Qualibria platform, which also uses LexEVS. This is an example of industry partners engaged in the development and commercialization of NCI open source tooling.

Seoul National University, Korea

The Biomedical Knowledge Engineering (BiKE) lab adopted the 2005 version of the LexGrid model and over the last several years created an entire terminology-based application suite on that model. The VKC is currently working with BiKE to finalize an agreement under which they would provide to us the source code for a terminology mapping UI that was developed as part of their project. This would be a potentially significant contribution, as it would add a new tool in an area with a known gap in the current functionality of LexEVS.

McGill University Health Center, Canada

McGill is connected to the TRANSFoRm project for European health care reform. LexEVS was chosen as the terminology server for the project, but a new loader is required in support of the ATC terminology. The VKC is currently working with them on the development of the ATC loader, which includes requirements gathering, coding, testing, and documentation. This represents an example where a project-specific use case provided by a customer is used as the basis for collaborative development of an open source contribution.

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The NCI CCNE office partnered with CBIIT in 2006 to develop a data sharing platform called caNanoLab.  caNanoLab has a goal of semantic interoperability across centers performing nanoparticle characterization studies. caNanoLab is based on an information model representing nanoparticles and their physical and in vitro characterization.  NCI Thesaurus (NCIt) has been supporting concept curation for development of caNanoLab since its inception. NCIt editors have worked with the developers and users of caNanoLab from the CCNEs and other academic institutions to define concepts for data curation and to expand the object model to include data submission for both characterizations of experimental nanomaterials and translational research studies.  Funding for additional development was recently lost, but caNanoLab continues to be heavily used.  It currently contains 886 samples, 72 sample sources, 3,329 characterizations, and 41 protocols, and identifies 1,073 publications. The caNanoLab homepage shows 141,668 visitors since June 3, 2010.

NanoTAB

Developed by CBIIT, Oregon State University, PNNL, Washington University St. Louis, Stanford, Jackson Labs, Pennsylvania BioNano Systems, NIOSH, NCI Frederick NCL, Emory/Georgia Tech. This tool is used by all members of the ICR Nano Working Group. Despite recent loss of caNanoLab funding, NanoTAB continues to be used heavily.

NanoParticle Ontology (NPO)

This terminology is loaded in NCI Metathesaurus, on LexEVS, and on the NCI Term Browser. NPO curators use the NCI Protégé curation tool and they use NCI Thesaurus as a cross-reference and a source for some of their definitions.

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