UMLS (Unified Medical Language System)-Query can be used to build applications for semi-automated sample annotation, terminology based browsers for tissue sample databases, and for terminology research. It is a PERL module that provides functions for retrieving concept identifiers, mapping text-phrases to Metathesaurus concepts, and graph traversal in the Metathesaurus.
Reference Paper - UMLS-Query: A Perl Module for Querying the UMLS.N. H. Shah, M. A. Musen. Technical report, Published 2007.
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