Welcome to the BioMedical Terminology Service

This service contains data for various biomedical terminologies, ontologies, and vocabularies.

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Vocabularies
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Concepts

About

The BioMedical Terminology Service is designed to facilitate access to and usage of biomedical terminologies, ontologies, and vocabularies. It offers a centralised API service that allows users to query, retrieve and interact with a wide range of biomedical terminological resources in various use cases, including research, clinical applications, and data analysis.

Features

On top of the normal searching and querying functionalities on biomedical terminologies, this service also provides advanced features:

  • Parent-Child traversal for use in external queries.
  • Inter- and intra-vocabulary mapping for normalising subject tagging.
  • Semantic similarity based searches and translations in between term sets.
  • Support for multiple terminologies, ontologies, and vocabularies.
  • RESTful API for easy integration with other applications and services.
  • Regular updates to ensure access to the latest versions of terminological resources.
  • Comprehensive documentation and usage examples.