UMLS® 2009AB Release Available
The 2009AB release of the Unified Medical Language System® (UMLS) Knowledge Sources is available for download as of November 3, 2009.
RxNorm and SNOMED CT® are also available for download.
In this UMLS Release there are:
- More than 2.1 million concepts and 9.8 million unique concept names from over 150 source vocabularies
- One new source
- Routine Health Outcomes (LNC_RHO)
- One new Content View
- CORE (Clinical Observations Recording and Encoding) Problem List Subset of SNOMED CT
- One new mapping file
- ICD10PCS_2009 to ICD9CM_2009 Mappings (Reimbursement)
- Twenty-nine updated English sources and nine updated translation sources
- These include ICNP®, MeSH®, MedDRA, RxNorm, and SNOMED CT (English and Spanish). For a complete list of updated sources, see the Updated Sources Web page. For more detailed information on changes in this version of the Metathesaurus, see the Updated Sources (Expanded) Web page.
- RxNorm data changes including adding the term type PIN (Precise Ingredient Name) and changes to the term type SY (Synonym)
Additional release statistics are published on the UMLS Web site. For more information about the release, see the What's New section of the Release Documentation.
To access the UMLS Release files, you must have an active UMLS Metathesaurus® license and a valid UMLSKS account. You will be prompted for your UMLSKS Login ID and Password when downloading the files.
Additional information regarding the UMLS is available on the UMLS homepage. New users are encouraged to take the UMLS Basics Tutorial and to explore the training materials and other information on the New Users' homepage.
UMLS DVD
As always, the production and mailing of the UMLS DVDs occur about four weeks after the release is made available for download. Those licensees who requested the DVD for the previous release (2009AA) will automatically receive a DVD copy of the current release. If you did not receive the previous release on DVD and want the current release on DVD, Contact NLM and include your license code in the request.
MetamorphoSys Changes
MetamorphoSys has undergone a number of changes including the addition of new filters, features for developers, and new load script options. These changes will be discussed in a Webcast on December 2, 2009 at 2:00 pm ET. The URL for the Webcast will posted on the UMLS Webcast page prior to the beginning of the meeting.
The RRF Browser has been enhanced, including four new browsing options: cluster views, hyperlinked data in the Report View, refine searches, and highlight search results. These new options will be explained in forthcoming RRF Browser Quick Tours, which will be available from the UMLS User Education homepage. For information about other changes in the RRF Browser please see the What's New section of the Release Documentation, or consult the new Help screens within the Browser.
As of this version of MetamorphoSys, old configuration files can no longer be used. Future versions of MetamorphoSys will maintain backward compatibility, but configuration files developed for the 2009AA release or earlier will not function with the 2009AB MetamorphoSys Release or future releases.
In addition, Mac users must have Java Runtime Environment (JRE) Version 1.6 to create or browse a subset. A separate MetamorphoSys release download will be available from the UMLS Web site for Mac JRE 1.5 users for this 2009AB release.
For more information about the changes in MetamorphoSys please see the MetamorphoSys Section of the What's New of the Release Documentation.
UMLS® 2009AB Release Available. NLM Tech Bull. 2009 Nov-Dec;(371):e1.
