NCI Metathesaurus (NCIm) is a wide-ranging biomedical terminology database that covers most terminologies used by NCI for clinical care, translational and basic research, and public information and administrative activities. It integrates terms and definitions from different terminologies, including NCI Thesaurus, however the representation is not identical.

Prefix
ncim
Links
Homepage
Contact
Missing Contact
Identifier Space Owner
National Cancer Institute
Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in NCI Metathesaurus should match this regular expression:
^C\d+$

Example Local Unique Identifier
C0026339   Resolve
Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from NCI Metathesaurus should match this regular expression:
^ncim:C\d+$

Example CURIE
ncim:C0026339
Metaregistry NCI Metathesaurus

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 3 mappings to external registries for this resource with 1 unique external prefixes.

Registry Name Registry Metaprefix External Prefix Curate
BioContext biocontext NCIM
Identifiers.org Identifiers.org logo miriam ncim
N2T Name-to-Thing logo n2t ncim
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 C0026339 is used to demonstrate the providers available for NCI Metathesaurus. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Name Metaprefix URI
NCI Metathesaurus ncim http://ncim.nci.nih.gov/ncimbrowser/ConceptReport.jsp?dictionary=NCI%20MetaThesaurus&code=C0026339
Bioregistry bioregistry https://bioregistry.io/ncim:C0026339
Identifiers.org miriam https://identifiers.org/ncim:C0026339
Name-to-Thing n2t https://n2t.net/ncim:C0026339