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

NCITm NCI_Thesaurus NCIT NCI2004_11_17 NCITt ncithesaurus NCI NCit NCIt NCIT_Thesaurus

Keywords

biomedical science obo ontology preclinical studies thesaurus translational medicine

Version

22.07d

License

CC-BY-4.0

Links

Homepage Repository OBO OWL

Contact

Melissa Haendel   0000-0001-9114-8737   mellybelly

Identifier Space Owner

National Cancer Institute

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

• 2008 Representing the NCI Thesaurus in OWL DL: Modeling tools help modeling languages.
• 2004 NCI Thesaurus: using science-based terminology to integrate cancer research results.

Appears In (4) (bioregistry.schema:0000018 )

ECTO MCO ONTOAVIDA SCDO

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

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.

Additional providers curated in the Bioregistry are listed here.