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UMLS® Applications
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NLM® Applications
- PubMed® offers free access to
MEDLINE® (with links to participating on-line journals), and other related databases.
- The NLM Gateway allows users to search in multiple
retrieval systems at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). The current Gateway searches MEDLINE and OLDMEDINE (pre-1966) using PubMed, LOCATORplus, AIDS Meetings, HSRProj, and MEDLINEplus®.
- Medical terms can be difficult to remember, and often there are many names for a single
concept (e.g., cancer of the colon, colonic neoplasm, colon cancer, etc.). Thus, ClinicalTrials.gov uses the UMLS to automatically add words
related to those that searchers enter.
- NLM's Indexing Initiative uses the UMLS as a major component in investigating automated indexing methods.
Other Applications
Many other institutions and individuals are applying the UMLS Knowledge Sources and lexical
programs. Here are a few examples.
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Last reviewed: 05 February 2008
Last updated: 29 January 2008
First published: 01 January 2000
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