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 NCIThesaurus NCI ncithesaurus NCI2004_11_17 NCIT_Thesaurus NCITt NCITm NCI_Thesaurus NCIT NCIt

Keywords

biomedical science cancer disease obo ontology preclinical studies thesaurus translational medicine

Version

2024-05-07

License

CC-BY-4.0

Links

Homepage Repository OBO OWL

Contact

NCI Thesaurus Mailbox

Identifier Space Owner

National Cancer Institute

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

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

Example Local Unique Identifiers

C138986   Resolve
A14   Resolve
P320   Resolve
R123   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from NCI Thesaurus should match this regular expression:
^NCIT:[CRPA]\d+$

Example CURIEs

NCIT:C138986
NCIT:A14
NCIT:P320
NCIT:R123

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

A summary of the relations in the Bioregistry schema can be found here.

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

ECTO MCO ONTOAVIDA SCDO

In Collection

FHIR External Terminologies NFDI4Chem Collection Synapse.org external links

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 14 mappings to external registries for this resource with 5 unique external prefixes.

When using this resource in RDF, the following URI format should be used:

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_$1

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 C138986 is used to demonstrate the providers available for NCI Thesaurus. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Additional providers curated in the Bioregistry are listed here. These are typically inherited from Identifiers.org or Prefix Commons, and need extra curation.