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Action

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Using a web or ftp client go to the URL:

ftp://ftp1.nci.nih.gov/pub/cacore/EVS/

screenshot of FTP directory

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Select the version of NCI Thesaurus OWL you wish to download. Save the file to a directory on your machine.

3

Extract the OWL file from the zip download and save in a directory on your machine. This directory will be referred to as NCI_THESAURUS_DIRECTORY

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Using the LexEVS utilities load the NCI Thesaurus:

Code Block
cd {LexBIG_DIRECTORY}/admin

For Windows installation use the following command:

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LoadOWL.bat –in "file:///{NCI_THESAURUS_DIRECTORY}/Thesaurus_10.10d.owl

For Linux installation use the following command:

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LoadOWL.sh –in "file:///{NCI_THESAURUS_DIRECTORY}/Thesaurus_10.10d.owl
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The NCI Thesaurus has grown large enough that it can no longer be loaded on many typical desktop machines. We recommend a 64-bit operating system running on a multiprocessor computer with a minimum of 4g of memory. Server class Linux machines are the typical target for these loads. The time to load NCI Thesaurus will vary depending on machine, memory, and disk speed. Expect a couple of hours for a higher end machine.

Example output from load of NCI Thesaurus 05.12f

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