Fall 2023 Updates to Semantic Products of NCI Enterprise Vocabulary Services

September 29, 2023

Are you looking for the latest updates from NCI’s Enterprise Vocabulary Services? The team has developed and published new and updated NCI Thesaurus (NCIt) and NCI Metathesaurus (NCIm) content along with the latest version of standalone terminologies and ontologies.

New/Updated NCIt Content

• Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Terminology
• P52, P53, and P54 versions of the value sets
• Pediatrics, Crohn’s disease, COVID-19 v2.0, and cardiovascular imaging therapeutic area user guides terminology
• American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Complications of COVID-19 Terminology
• Operational Ontology for Radiation Oncology Terminology
  • The initial subset is focused on radiotherapy terminology for prostate cancer.
• Urinary system and male reproductive system neoplasms terminologies following the WHO 2022 updated guidelines
• Childhood Cancer Staging Terminology
• Uber-Anatomy Terminology includes comprehensive relationships to taxon-specific anatomical ontologies, allowing integration of functional, phenotype, and expression data.
• Genomic Data Commons (GDC) Property and Value Terminology reflects changes made to the GDC data dictionary in their v2.6.0 (Elion) and v2.6.6 (Galileo) releases.
• Minimal Common Oncology Data Elements (mCODE) project data is available. This project is a consensus data standard created to facilitate transmission of data of patients with cancer.
• Myeloid Neoplasms and Acute Leukemias
• Lymphoid neoplasms (lymphomas, chronic lymphoid leukemias, atypical lymphoproliferative disorders, and dendritic and histiocytic cell neoplasms)

New Edition of NCIm

• Version 202302
  • UMLS_2022AB
  • SNOMEDCT_US_2022_09_01
  • MDR_25_1
  • NCI_2023_01E

Updated Cross-Terminology Mappings

• NCIt to SwissProt Mapping (August 2023)
• NCIt_Maps_To_GDC (23.07e)
• NCIt_Maps_To_ICD10_2016 (23.07e)
• NCIt_Maps_To_ICD10CM_2017 (23.07e)
• NCIt_Maps_To_ICD9CM_2014 (23.07e)
• NCIt_Maps_To_ICDO3 (23.07e)
• NCIt_Maps_To_MedDRA (23.07e)

Standalone Terminologies and Ontologies

• CanMED: Cancer Medications Enquiry Database (February and August 2023)
• ChEBI: Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (v.217, v.218, v.219, v.222, v.223, v.224)
• GO: Gene Ontology (January, March-July 2023)
• HGNC: HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee (January-April, June-August 2023)