NCI's Enterprise Vocabulary Services (EVS)

Description:

EVS is a collaborative effort of the NCI Office of Communications and the NCI Center for Bioinformatics. The EVS provides a set of services and resources, including NCI Thesaurus and NCI Metathesaurus that facilitate the standardization of terminology across the Institute and the larger biomedical community.

Two key terminology resources are produced and published by EVS:

• NCI Thesaurus is a reference terminology used in a growing number of NCI and other systems. It provides rich textual and ontologic descriptions of some 50,000 key biomedical concepts.
• NCI Metathesaurus is a comprehensive biomedical terminology database, connecting 2,500,000 terms from more than 50 terminologies, including some propriety vocabularies with restrictions on their use.

These and other resources and services are described more fully on this EVS Web site.
EVS is a partnership between the NCI Office of Communications and the NCI Center for Bioinformatics. It is a key component of the cancer Common Ontologic Resource Environment (caCORE) and the cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG), and is used in the NCI Web Portal and Physician Data Query (PDQ) cancer information services.

Web Site:
Enterprise Vocabulary Services (EVS) http://evs.nci.nih.gov/


Availability:
NCI website

Contact:
Lawrence W. Wright, Co-Director, Nci Enterprise Vocabulary Services (Evs) ; lwright@mail.nih.gov

This page last updated 2006-09-05 15:56:57