MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) is the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus. It consists of sets of terms naming descriptors in a hierarchical structure that permits searching at various levels of specificity. This thesaurus is used by NLM for indexing articles from biomedical journals, cataloguing of books, documents, etc.
mesh
Local identifiers in Medical Subject Headings should match this
regular expression:
^(C|D)\d{6,9}$
Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Medical Subject Headings should match
this regular expression:
^mesh:(C|D)\d{6,9}$
bfo:0000051
)
The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 14 mappings to external registries for this resource with 6 unique external prefixes.
Registry Name | Registry Metaprefix | External Prefix | Curate |
---|---|---|---|
AberOWL
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aberowl |
MESH
|
|
BARTOC
|
bartoc |
391
|
|
BioContext | biocontext |
MESH
|
|
Biolink
|
biolink |
MESH
|
|
BioPortal
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bioportal |
MESH
|
|
Cellosaurus
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cellosaurus |
MeSH
|
|
EDAM
|
edam |
1177
|
|
FAIRSharing
|
fairsharing |
FAIRsharing.qnkw45
|
|
GO
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go |
MeSH
|
|
HL7
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hl7 |
2.16.840.1.113883.6.177
|
|
Identifiers.org
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miriam |
mesh
|
|
N2T
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n2t |
mesh
|
|
Prefix Commons
|
prefixcommons |
mesh
|
|
Wikidata
|
wikidata |
P486
|
When using this resource in RDF, the following URI format should be used:
http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/$1
Providers are various services that resolve CURIEs to URLs. The example CURIE
None:C063233
is used to demonstrate the provides available for
this resource. Generation of OLS and BioPortal URLs requires additional programmatic
logic beyond string formatting.
Additional providers curated in the Bioregistry are listed here.
Code | Name | URL |
---|---|---|
bio2rdf |
Bio2RDF | http://bio2rdf.org/mesh:C063233 |