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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., 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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