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<h1 class="articleH1">UMLS 2015AA Release Available</h1>
<p class="tbyearmonth">Wilder V. UMLS 2015AA Release Available. NLM Tech Bull. 2015 May-Jun;(404):e4.</p>
<div class="articleactions">2015 May 12 <span class="status">[posted]</span>
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<p>The 2015AA release of the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) Knowledge Sources is available for <a href="//www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/licensedcontent/umlsknowledgesources.html">download</a> as of May 11, 2015. </p>
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In the new UMLS Release there are: </p>
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<li>More than 3.1 million concepts and 12 million unique concept names from over 170 source vocabularies</li>
<li>The full Metathesaurus requires 24.1 GB of disk space; the active release requires 23.2 GB of disk space. </li>
<li>One new RxNorm subsource
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<li>Metathesaurus CMS Formulary Reference File (MTHCMSFRF)</li>
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<li>32 updated English sources and 19 updated translation sources including MeSH, MedDRA, RxNorm, and SNOMED CT (English and Spanish)</li>
<li>SPECIALIST Lexicon and Lexical Tools 2015 Releases</li>
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<strong>Semantic Types</strong><br /></p>
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<li>As of 2015AA, six previously deprecated semantic types have been removed.  Any CUIs that were categorized with the deprecated semantic types are re-categorized with the parent of the deprecated semantic type.  The following table lists the semantic types that were removed along with their replacements. <br /><br />
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<th width="319" valign="top" align="left"><strong>Deleted Semantic Type</strong></th>
<th width="319" valign="top" align="left"><strong>Replacement Semantic Type</strong></th>
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<td width="319" valign="top">Neuroreactive Substance or Biogenic Amine</td>
<td width="319" valign="top">Biologically Active Substance</td>
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<td width="319" valign="top">Organophosphorus Compound</td>
<td width="319" valign="top">Organic Chemical</td>
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<td width="319" valign="top">Carbohydrate </td>
<td width="319" valign="top">Organic Chemical </td>
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<td width="319" valign="top">Lipid </td>
<td width="319" valign="top">Organic Chemical</td>
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<td width="319" valign="top">Steroid </td>
<td width="319" valign="top">Organic Chemical</td>
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<td width="319" valign="top">Eicosanoid </td>
<td width="319" valign="top">Organic Chemical</td>
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<strong>MetamorphoSys</strong><br />
MetamorphoSys now allows an additional connection option, TNS service name, when browsing RRF data in an Oracle database.</p>
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<strong>Release Information</strong><br />
For more information about the release, see the <a href="//www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/knowledge_sources/metathesaurus/release/notes.html">What's New</a> and <a href="//www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/knowledge_sources/metathesaurus/release/updated_sources.html">Updated Sources</a> sections of the <a href="//www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/knowledge_sources/metathesaurus/release/index.html">Release Documentation</a>.  Additional <a href="//www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/knowledge_sources/metathesaurus/release/statistics.html">release statistics</a> are published on the <a href="//www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/">UMLS</a> Web site.</p>
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To access the UMLS Release files, you must have an active <a href="//www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/umls.html">UMLS Metathesaurus License</a> and a valid UTS account.  You will be prompted for your UTS username and password when downloading the files.  </p>
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Additional information regarding the UMLS is available on the <a href="//www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/">UMLS homepage</a>. New users are encouraged to take the <a href="//www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/new_users/online_learning/">UMLS Basics Tutorial</a> and to explore the new <a href="//www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/quickstart.html">UMLS Quick Start Guide</a>, training materials and other information on the <a href="//www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/new_users/index.html">New Users' homepage</a>.</p>
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<strong>Source Release Documentation</strong><br />
2015AA <a href="//www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/sourcereleasedocs/index.html">Source Release Documentation</a> Web pages will be published following the release.</p>
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Victoria Wilder<br />
MEDLARS Management Section<br />
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