Bioregistry - NCI Thesaurus

Registry NCI Thesaurus

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.

Prefix

ncit

Preferred Prefix

NCIT

Alternative Prefixes

NCIt NCit NCIT NCITm NCI2004_11_17 NCI_Thesaurus NCI NCITt NCIT_Thesaurus ncithesaurus

Version

22.07d

License

CC BY 4.0

Links

Homepage Repository OBO OWL

Contact

Melissa Haendel 0000-0001-9114-8737 mellybelly

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

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

Example Local Unique Identifier

C138986 Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

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

Example CURIE

ncit:C138986

Publications

Ontology

Appears In (4): ECTO MCO ONTOAVIDA SCDO

Metaregistry NCI Thesaurus

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 13 mappings to external registries for ncit with 4 unique external prefixes.

Registry Name	Metaprefix	External Prefix
AberOWL	`aberowl`	`NCIT`
BioContext	`biocontext`	`NCIT`
BioPortal Prefixes	`bioportal`	`NCIT`
Cellosaurus Registry	`cellosaurus`	`NCIt`
FAIRSharing	`fairsharing`	`FAIRsharing.4cvwxa`
HL7 External Code Systems	`hl7`	`2.16.840.1.113883.6.206`
Identifiers.org	`miriam`	`ncit`
Name-to-Thing	`n2t`	`ncit`
OBO Foundry	`obofoundry`	`ncit`
Ontology Lookup Service	`ols`	`ncit`
OntoBee	`ontobee`	`NCIT`
Prefix Commons	`prefixcommons`	`ncit`
Wikidata Property	`wikidata`	`P1748`

Providers

Providers are various services that resolve CURIEs to URLs. The example CURIE ncit:C138986 is used to demonstrate the provides available for ncit. Generation of OLS and BioPortal URLs requires additional programmatic logic beyond string formatting.

Name	Metaprefix	URI
NCI Thesaurus	`ncit`	http://ncit.nci.nih.gov/ncitbrowser/ConceptReport.jsp?dictionary=NCI%20Thesaurus&code=C138986
Bioregistry	`bioregistry`	https://bioregistry.io/ncit:C138986
Identifiers.org	`miriam`	https://identifiers.org/ncit:C138986
OBO Foundry	`obofoundry`	http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C138986
Ontology Lookup Service	`ols`	https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols/ontologies/ncit/terms?iri=http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C138986
Name-to-Thing	`n2t`	https://n2t.net/ncit:C138986
BioPortal Prefixes	`bioportal`	https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/NCIT/?p=classes&conceptid=http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C138986
None	`evs`	http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C138986

Extra Providers

Additional providers curated in the Bioregistry are listed here.

Code	Name	URL
`evs`	Legacy NCBI OWL	http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C138986

Normalize prefixes. This can be any capitalization or punctuation variant of the synonyms listed below.

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.normalize_prefix("NCIt")
'ncit'

Get all synonyms:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_synonyms("ncit")
{'NCIt', 'NCit', 'NCIT', 'NCITm', 'NCI2004_11_17', 'NCI_Thesaurus', 'NCI', 'NCITt', 'NCIT_Thesaurus', 'ncithesaurus'}

Get the version:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_version("ncit")
'22.07d'

Get the license:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_license("ncit")
'CC BY 4.0'

Get the homepage:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_homepage("ncit")
'https://github.com/NCI-Thesaurus/thesaurus-obo-edition'

Get the repository:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_repository("ncit")
'https://github.com/NCI-Thesaurus/thesaurus-obo-edition'

Get the OBO download link:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_obo_download("ncit")
'http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ncit.obo'

Get the OWL download link:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_owl_download("ncit")
'http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ncit.owl'

Get the contact's name:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_name("ncit")
'Melissa Haendel'

Get the contact's email:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_email("ncit")
'haendel@ohsu.edu'

Get the contact's GitHub handle:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_github("ncit")
'mellybelly'

Get the contact's ORCiD identifier:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_orcid("ncit")
'0000-0001-9114-8737'