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New and Updated UMLS Tutorials Available
New and Updated UMLS Tutorials Available. NLM Tech Bull. 2018 Jul-Aug;(423):b4.
July 02, 2018 [posted]
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce new and updated video tutorials about resources and tools for the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS):
- How to Request a UMLS License and Create a UTS Account
- UMLS Metathesaurus License. Appendix 1: UMLS Source Vocabularies
- UMLS Terminology Services Metathesaurus Browser. Searching and Interpreting the Search Results
- Unified Medical Language System. MetamorphoSys: Creating Subsets
- MetamorphoSys. Rich Release Format Browser: Search By Code
- MetamorphoSys. Rich Release Format (RRF) Browser: Highlight Search Results
- MetamorphoSys. Rich Release Format (RRF) Browser: "Refine Search By" Feature
- MetamorphoSys. Rich Release Format (RRF) Browser: Find a Code From a CUI
- MetamorphoSys. Rich Release Format (RRF) Browser: Limit a Search by Source
- MetamorphoSys. Rich Release Format (RRF) Browser: Cluster Views
- MetamorphoSys. Create a Database Load Script
For more information about the UMLS, see the UMLS homepage.
These and many other tutorials are available from the UMLS Learning Resources page and the NLM Learning Resources Database.