Updating the genomic component of the UMLS Semantic Network.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2007

Abstract

The UMLS Metathesaurus and the Semantic Network (SN) were created in the absence of a comprehensive curated genomics terminology and before the recent quantitative and qualitative explosion of genomic knowledge. In this paper we evaluate the internal consistency of the SN's categories relevant to genomics and propose changes to improve its ability to express genomic knowledge. We evaluate the completeness of the SN with respect to genomic concepts by extracting genomics vocabulary from leading texts and databases of genomic information and comparing the extracted vocabulary to the SN. We propose corresponding extensions to the SN to fill identified gaps.

Identifier

56149090325 (Scopus)

Publication Title

AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings AMIA Symposium AMIA Symposium

e-ISSN

15594076

PubMed ID

18693816

First Page

150

Last Page

154

Grant

R01LM008445

Fund Ref

U.S. National Library of Medicine

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