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Using a web or ftp client go to the URL: http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/download/evsportal.jsp
Note that a valid UMLS license is required to download the NCI Metathesaurus due to the UMLS content inside. You will find out how to manage this on the site above if you do not have a license.

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Select the version of NCI Metathesaurus RRF you wish to download. There may only be one. Save the file to a directory on your machine.

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Extract the files from the ZIP download and save to a directory on your machine. This directory will be referred to as NCI_METATHESAURUS_DIRECTORY.  RELASE_INFO.RRF is required to be present for the load utility to work.

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Check that you are able to open a large number of files before starting the load.

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ulimit -Hn

Usually having around 10,000 available open files is sufficient. If your limit is set to low this will need to be raised.

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Using the LexEVS utilities load the NCI Thesaurus:

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{LEXEVS_HOME}/admin

For Windows installation use the following command:

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LoadMetaBatch.bat –in "file:///{NCI_METATHESAURUS_DIRECTORY}/"

For Linux installation use the following command:

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LoadMetaBatch.sh –in "file:///{NCI_THESAURUS_DIRECTORY}/"

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