Registry Unified Medical Language System Concept Unique Identifier

Logo for Unified Medical Language System Concept Unique Identifier The Unified Medical Language System is a repository of biomedical vocabularies. Vocabularies integrated in the UMLS Metathesaurus include the NCBI taxonomy, Gene Ontology, the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), OMIM and the Digital Anatomist Symbolic Knowledge Base. UMLS concepts are not only inter-related, but may also be linked to external resources such as GenBank.

Prefix
umls
Alternative Prefixes
UMLS UMLS_CUI umls.cui UMLS CUI
License
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/knowledge_sources/metathesaurus/release/license_agreement.html
Links
Homepage
Contact
Missing Contact
Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Unified Medical Language System Concept Unique Identifier should match this regular expression:
^C\d+$

Example Local Unique Identifier
C2584994   Resolve
Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Unified Medical Language System Concept Unique Identifier should match this regular expression:
^umls:C\d+$

Example CURIE
umls:C2584994
Ontology

A summary of the relations in the Bioregistry schema can be found here.

Provided By
sider.effect
Metaregistry Unified Medical Language System Concept Unique Identifier

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 7 mappings to external registries for this resource with 5 unique external prefixes.

Registry Name Registry Metaprefix External Prefix Curate
BARTOC Basic Register of Thesauri, Ontologies & Classifications logo bartoc 20052
BioContext biocontext UMLS
EDAM EDAM Ontology logo edam 1181
HL7 HL7 External Code Systems logo hl7 2.16.840.1.113883.6.86
Identifiers.org Identifiers.org logo miriam umls
N2T Name-to-Thing logo n2t umls
Wikidata Wikidata Property logo wikidata P2892
Providers

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier C2584994 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Unified Medical Language System Concept Unique Identifier. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Name Metaprefix URI
Unified Medical Language System Concept Unique Identifier umls https://uts.nlm.nih.gov/uts/umls/concept/C2584994
Bioregistry bioregistry https://bioregistry.io/umls:C2584994
Identifiers.org miriam https://identifiers.org/umls:C2584994
Name-to-Thing n2t https://n2t.net/umls:C2584994