appears_in:
- ecto
- mco
- ontoavida
- scdo
contact:
  email: ncithesaurus@mail.nih.gov
  name: NCI Thesaurus Mailbox
depends_on: []
deprecated: false
description: NCI Thesaurus (NCIt) provides reference terminology covering vocabulary
  for clinical care, translational and basic research, and public information and
  administrative activities, providing a stable and unique identification code.
download_obo: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ncit.obo
download_owl: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ncit.owl
example: C138986
example_extras:
- A14
- P320
- R123
homepage: https://github.com/ncit-obo-org/ncit-obo-edition
keywords:
- biomedical science
- cancer
- dataplant
- disease
- life sciences, biology
- nfdi4chem
- obo
- ontology
- preclinical studies
- thesaurus
- translational medicine
license: CC-BY-4.0
logo: https://evsexplore.semantics.cancer.gov/evsexplore/assets/images/NCItTile.png
mappings:
  aberowl: NCIT
  biocontext: NCIT
  bioportal: NCIT
  cellosaurus: NCIt
  fairsharing: FAIRsharing.4cvwxa
  hl7: 2.16.840.1.113883.6.206
  integbio: nbdc02651
  miriam: ncit
  n2t: ncit
  obofoundry: ncit
  ols: ncit
  ontobee: NCIT
  prefixcommons: ncit
  tib: ncit
  wikidata: P1748
  wikidata.entity: Q113012671
name: NCI Thesaurus
namespace_in_lui: false
owners:
- name: National Cancer Institute
  partnered: false
  ror: 040gcmg81
pattern: ^[CRPA]\d+$
preferred_prefix: NCIT
prefix: ncit
providers:
- code: ''
  description: NCIt at National Cancer Institute
  homepage: http://ncit.nci.nih.gov/
  name: NCIt at National Cancer Institute
  uri_format: http://ncit.nci.nih.gov/ncitbrowser/ConceptReport.jsp?dictionary=NCI%20Thesaurus&code=$1
- code: bio2rdf
  description: Bio2RDF is an open-source project that uses Semantic Web technologies
    to build and provide the largest network of Linked Data for the Life Sciences.
    Bio2RDF defines a set of simple conventions to create RDF(S) compatible Linked
    Data from a diverse set of heterogeneously formatted sources obtained from multiple
    data providers.
  homepage: https://bio2rdf.org
  name: Bio2RDF
  uri_format: http://bio2rdf.org/ncit:$1
- code: evs
  description: Links to a no-longer existing OWL file
  homepage: https://ncit.nci.nih.gov/ncitbrowser/
  name: Legacy NCBI OWL
  uri_format: http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#$1
publications:
- doi: 10.3233/ao-2008-0051
  pmc: PMC2753293
  pubmed: '19789731'
  title: 'Representing the NCI Thesaurus in OWL DL: Modeling tools help modeling languages'
  year: 2008
- doi: 10.3233/978-1-60750-949-3-33
  pubmed: '15360769'
  title: 'NCI Thesaurus: using science-based terminology to integrate cancer research
    results'
  year: 2004
rdf_uri_format: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_$1
repository: https://github.com/ncit-obo-org/ncit-obo-edition
synonyms:
- NCI
- NCI2004_11_17
- NCIT
- NCIT_Thesaurus
- NCIThesaurus
- NCITm
- NCITt
- NCI_Thesaurus
- NCIt
- NCit
- ncithesaurus
uri_format: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_$1
version: '2025-08-06'
