NAME

UMLS::CuiFinder - Perl interface to support the UMLS::Interface.pm which is an interface to the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS).

SYNOPSIS

see UMLS::Interface.pm

ABSTRACT

This package provides a Perl interface to the Unified Medical Language System. The package is set up to access pre-specified sources of the UMLS present in a mysql database. The package was essentially created for use with the UMLS::Similarity package for measuring the semantic relatedness of concepts.

INSTALL

To install the module, run the following magic commands:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

This will install the module in the standard location. You will, most probably, require root privileges to install in standard system directories. To install in a non-standard directory, specify a prefix during the 'perl Makefile.PL' stage as:

perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/home/sid

It is possible to modify other parameters during installation. The details of these can be found in the ExtUtils::MakeMaker documentation. However, it is highly recommended not messing around with other parameters, unless you know what you're doing.

DESCRIPTION

This package provides a Perl interface to the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS). The UMLS is a knowledge representation framework encoded designed to support broad scope biomedical research queries. There exists three major sources in the UMLS. The Metathesaurus which is a taxonomy of medical concepts, the Semantic Network which categorizes concepts in the Metathesaurus, and the SPECIALIST Lexicon which contains a list of biomedical and general English terms used in the biomedical domain. The UMLS-Interface package is set up to access the Metathesaurus and the Semantic Network present in a mysql database.

For more information please see the UMLS::Interface.pm documentation.

SEE ALSO

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/umls-similarity/

http://search.cpan.org/dist/UMLS-Similarity/

AUTHOR

Bridget T McInnes <bthomson@cs.umn.edu> Ted Pedersen <tpederse@d.umn.edu>

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 at cs.utah.edu

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

Ying Liu, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
liux0395 at umn.edu

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