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NAME

findLeastCommonSubsumer.pl - This program finds the least common subsumer between two concepts.

SYNOPSIS

This program takes two terms or CUIs and returns the least common subsumer between them.

USAGE

Usage: findLeastCommonSubsumer.pl [OPTIONS] [CUI1|TERM1] [CUI2|TERM2]

INPUT

Required Arguments:

[CUI1|TERM1] [CUI2|TERM2]

A TERM or CUI (or some combination) from the Unified Medical Language System

Optional Arguments:

--username STRING

Username is required to access the umls database on MySql unless it was specified in the my.cnf file at installation

--password STRING

Password is required to access the umls database on MySql unless it was specified in the my.cnf file at installation

--hostname STRING

Hostname where mysql is located. DEFAULT: localhost

--socket STRING

The socket your mysql is using. DEFAULT: /tmp/mysql.sock

--database STRING

Database contain UMLS DEFAULT: umls

--forcerun

This option will bypass any command prompts such as asking if you would like to continue with the index creation.

--verbose

This option will print out the table information to the config file that you specified.

--help

Displays the quick summary of program options.

--version

Displays the version information.

OUTPUT

List of CUIs that are associated with the input term

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

  • Perl (version 5.8.5 or better) - http://www.perl.org

AUTHOR

Bridget T. McInnes, University of Minnesota

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2007-2009,

Bridget T. McInnes, University of Minnesota
bthomson at cs.umn.edu
   
Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota Duluth
tpederse at d.umn.edu

Siddharth Patwardhan, University of Utah, Salt Lake City
sidd@cs.utah.edu

Serguei Pakhomov, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
pakh0002@umn.edu

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to:

The Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA.