The international standard for identifying health measurements, observations, and documents.

Prefix

loinc

Alternative Prefixes

LNC

Keywords

biomedical science life science ontology preclinical studies

Links

Homepage @LOINC

Contact

LOINC Support

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes should match this regular expression:
^(\d|\w)+-\d$

Example Local Unique Identifier

LL379-9   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes should match this regular expression:
^loinc:(\d|\w)+-\d$

Example CURIE

loinc:LL379-9

Publications

• 1998 Combining laboratory data sets from multiple institutions using the logical observation identifier names and codes (LOINC).
• 2015 Supporting interoperability of genetic data with LOINC.
• 2012 Enabling international adoption of LOINC through translation.

Contributors

• submitter Charles Tapley Hoyt   0000-0003-4423-4370   cthoyt

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

Providers are various services that resolve CURIEs to URLs. The example CURIE loinc:LL379-9 is used to demonstrate the provides available for loinc. Generation of OLS and BioPortal URLs requires additional programmatic logic beyond string formatting.