[The NCI Thesaurus is a product of NCI's Enterprise Vocabulary Services. It arose from the need to have an institute wide common terminology to integrate the diverse data systems in use throughout NCI. Centralized coding of research related activities helped to meet various responsibilities of the Institute; however, supplementary data coding assigned independently by various components of the NCI made it difficult to find and combine related information across programs. By incorporating the terms in use by the various programs and mapping those to unique concepts, it was intended that the NCI Thesaurus would facilitate interoperability and data sharing within NCI. The NCI Thesaurus is a rigorous, cancer-centric, formal reference vocabulary with true is_a taxonomic structure, polyhierarchy, inferred partonomy, and other features that make it suitable for supporting complex query operations against appropriately coded data repositories. ( NCI )]
UMLS (NCI) C1140168Thesaurus
Relation/CHD: gene
living system
Chromosomal, Gene, or Protein Abnormality
Biological Function
Abnormal Cell
cancer chemotherapy
Activity
Conceptual Entity
Diagnostic or Prognostic Factor
Disease, Disorder or Finding
NCI Administrative Concept
Property or Attribute
Anatomic Structure, System, or Substance
Experimental Organism Anatomical Concept
Experimental Organism Diagnosis
Diagnostic, Therapeutic, and Research Equipment
Gene Product
Biochemical Pathway
Drug, Food, Chemical or Biomedical Material