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Resource Details
Resource Name/Title
NCI's Enterprise Vocabulary Services (EVS)
Description
NCI Enterprise Vocabulary Services (EVS) provides resources and services to meet NCI needs for controlled terminology. NCI needs for terminology content, standards and systems are often shared by other NIH institutes and federal agencies, and by the broader cancer research and biomedical community.
Since 1997, EVS has worked with many partners to build shared content and services, so that information can be effectively exchanged, interpreted and analyzed while minimizing overall effort and cost. Since 2004, EVS has worked within caBIG® to develop and promote use of state-of-the-art terminology standards, content, and tools throughout our community.
EVS is now widely used:
- By NCI and its partners in caBIG®, NIH, other federal agencies, and other U.S. and international biomedical, academic, standards and research organizations
- To create, extend, subset, map, access and publish biomedical terminology and ontology
- For basic, translational, and clinical research, clinical care, epidemiology, public health, administration, and public information.
Key EVS terminology resources include:
- NCI Thesaurus is a reference terminology used in NCI and other systems. It provides rich textual and ontological descriptions of 100,000 key biomedical concepts.
- NCI Metathesaurus is a comprehensive biomedical terminology database, connecting 3,600,000 terms from more than 70 terminologies, including some propriety vocabularies with restrictions on their use.
- NCI Term Browser publishes all terminologies hosted by NCI EVS in an integrated environment, providing search, cross-links, and a user friendly interface to ICD-9-CM, CTCAE, MedDRA, SNOMED CT, NDF-RT, GO, and many other terminologies and ontologies.
Contact(s)
Wright, Lawrence W.
lwright@mail.nih.gov
Availability
Data and applications available via Web applications, downloads, and computer program interfaces to EVS and other servers.
NCI Division, Office, Center (DOC)
Center for BioMedical Informatics and Information Technology (CBIIT)
Category(s)
Cancer Communication Resources
Terminology Resources
Contact(s)
Web Sites
Enterprise Vocabulary Services (EVS)
Availability
Searchable Web site
