EVS Vocabulary Processing
EVS licenses and serves third party terminology as needed to meet NCI and caBIG requirements. These vocabularies come to EVS from a variety of sources and in a variety of formats. Though the LexBIG application is able to import most of these formats directly; a few terminologies require further processing before they can be loaded. Details on terminology sources, formats and processing are below.
Locally produced vocabularies
EVS produces the following vocabularies and makes them available through The LexEVS API and various browsers (NCIt Browser, NCI Metathesaurus Browser, BiomedGT wiki).
Name |
Source |
URL for Download |
Secured? |
Format |
Size |
Processing Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
NCI MetaThesaurus |
|
RRF |
5.4G |
|||
NCI Thesaurus |
|
OWL |
290M |
External vocabularies published by EVS
EVS makes available a number of terminologies through the BioPortal and API that are produced by sources outside the NCI.
Name |
Source |
URL for Download |
Secured? |
Format |
Size |
Processing Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Gene Ontology |
|
OBO |
12M |
|
||
HL7 |
|
RIM database |
32M |
|
||
NDF-RT |
|
OWL |
4M |
Converted from datafile to OWL by Lockheed Martin |
||
RadLex |
|
OBO |
7M |
|
||
The MGED Ontology |
|
OWL |
1M |
|
||
UMLS |
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/licensedcontent/umlsknowledgesources.html |
RRF |
22G |
See UMLS Subsets table below |
||
UMLS SemNet |
|
RRF |
1M |
|
||
Zebrafish |
|
OBO |
1M |
|
UMLS subsets published by EVS
The UMLS is not published in entirety. Instead a number of subset ontologies are extracted and published.
Name |
Original Source |
Secured? |
Size of subset |
Processing Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
LOINC |
|
500M |
|
|
MedDRA |
193M |
|
||
Snomed |
International Health Terminology Standards Development Organization |
7.4G |
|