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LexEVS software architecture and implementation is designed to facilitate flexibility and future expansion in the caBIG community. The purpose of LexEVS is to enable individual Cancer Centers to use the provided caCORE EVS services and if desired, install local instances of vocabularies.

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  • Open Biomedical Ontologies (OBO)
  • Web Ontology Language (OWL), e.g., NCI Thesaurus
  • Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) Rich Release Format (RRF), e.g.for example, NCI MetaThesaurusMetathesaurus

This common model is a critical component of the LexGrid project. Once disparate vocabulary information can be represented in a standardized model, it becomes possible to build common repositories to store vocabulary content and common programming interfaces and tools to access and manipulate that content. The HL7 Common Terminology Services (CTS) and LexBIG API as developed for the Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG®) initiative are two examples of APIs able to query information stored in the LexGrid Model.

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