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<h1 class="articleH1">UMLS 2020AB Release Available</h1>
<p class="tbyearmonth">Wilder V. UMLS 2020AB Release Available. NLM Tech Bull. 2020 Nov-Dec;(437):e1.</p>
<div class="articleactions">2020 November 02 <span class="status">[posted]</span>
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<p>The 2020AB release of the Unified Medical Language System&reg; (UMLS) Knowledge Sources is available for <a href="https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/licensedcontent/umlsknowledgesources.html">download</a> as of November 2, 2020.</p>
<p>The available downloads are:</p>
<ul>
<li>Full Release (UMLS Metathesaurus, Semantic Network, Specialist Lexicon and Lexical Tools, database load scripts, and MetamorphoSys for customizing your UMLS subset and browsing the data)</li>
<li>UMLS Metathesaurus Files (complete Metathesaurus data without any customization)</li>
<li>MRCONSO.RRF file (most widely used Metathesaurus file)</li>
</ul>
<p>The UMLS SOAP API is deprecated as of the 2020AA release. The SOAP API will be discontinued on December 31, 2020. SOAP API users are encouraged to switch to the <a href="https://documentation.uts.nlm.nih.gov/rest/home.html">REST API</a>.</p>
<p>Some changes are coming to UMLS Terminology Services (UTS):</p>
<ul>
<li>Our sign in process will change starting November 9, 2020. You will no longer sign in to UTS with a username and password. Instead, you will be asked to sign in using an identity provider of your choice.</li>
<li>UMLS API users who authenticate with a username and password should switch to using an API key effective immediately. Username and password will no longer work starting January 1, 2021.</li>
<li>We anticipate the release of the Beta version of our new UMLS Metathesaurus Browser on November 9, 2020.</li>
</ul>
<p>See our <a href="https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/uts-changes.html">Fall 2020 Changes to UTS announcement</a> for more information.</p>
<p><strong>Metathesaurus</strong></p>
<p>The 2020AB Metathesaurus contains approximately 4.41 million concepts and 15.9 million unique concept names from 215 source vocabularies.</p>
<p>One new MedDRA translation:</p>
<ul>
<li>MDRBPO (Brazilian Portuguese Edition of the Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities Terminology (MedDRA))</li>
</ul>
<p>Five new NCI sub-sources:</p>
<ul>
<li>NCI_ACC-AHA&nbsp;(American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Clinical Data Terminology)</li>
<li>NCI_BRIDG_5_3&nbsp;(Biomedical Research Integrated Domain Group Model, 5.3)</li>
<li>NCI_CELLOSAURUS&nbsp;(Cellosaurus)</li>
<li>NCI_GDC&nbsp;(NCI Genomic Data Commons)</li>
<li>NCI_ICDC&nbsp;(NCI Integrated Canine Data Commons)</li>
</ul>
<p>Four LNC translation sources removed:&nbsp;</p>
<ul>
<li>LNC-DE-CH (LOINC Linguistic Variant- German, Switzerland)</li>
<li>LNC-ES-CH (LOINC Linguistic Variant- Spanish, Switzerland)</li>
<li>LNC-FR-CH (LOINC Linguistic Variant- French, Switzerland)</li>
<li>LNC-IT-CH&nbsp;(LOINC Linguistic Variant- Italian, Switzerland)</li>
</ul>
<p>NCI_CPTAC update</p>
<ul>
<li>The Metathesaurus no longer includes NCI_CPTAC&nbsp;(Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium).</li>
</ul>
<p>65 English sources and 29 translation sources were updated. These include MeSH<sup>&reg;</sup>, MedDRA, RxNorm, and SNOMED CT<sup>&reg;</sup> (English and Spanish). A complete list is available in the <a href="https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/knowledge_sources/metathesaurus/release/updated_sources.html">Updated Sources</a> section of the <a href="https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/knowledge_sources/metathesaurus/release/index.html">Release Documentation</a>. For more detailed information on changes in this version of the Metathesaurus, see the <a href="https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/knowledge_sources/metathesaurus/release/updated_sources_expanded.html">Updated Sources (Expanded)</a> section. Additional release statistics may be found in the <a href="https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/knowledge_sources/metathesaurus/release/statistics.html">Statistics</a> section.</p>
<p><strong>MetamorphoSys</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>The full release requires 34.1 GB of disk space.</li>
</ul>
<p>Reported bugs may be viewed on the <a href="https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/knowledge_sources/metathesaurus/release/notes.html#bugs">Release Notes and Bugs</a> page.</p>
<p>MetamorphoSys can generate custom load scripts for MySQL, Oracle, or Microsoft Access when creating a Metathesaurus subset or installing the Semantic Network. Instructions are available on the <a href="https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/implementation_resources/scripts/index.html">UMLS Load Scripts</a> homepage.</p>
<p><strong>Release Information</strong></p>
<p>To access the UMLS Release files, you must have an active UMLS Metathesaurus&reg; License and a valid <a href="https://uts.nlm.nih.gov/">UTS</a> account. You will be prompted to authenticate with UTS when downloading the files.</p>
<p><strong>UMLS Learning Resources</strong><br />2020AB <a href="https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/sourcereleasedocs/index.html">Source Release Documentation</a> web pages are available.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Additional information regarding the UMLS is available on the <a href="https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/sourcereleasedocs/index.html">UMLS homepage</a>. New users are encouraged to take the <https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/new_users/online_learning/OVR_001.html">UMLS Basics Tutorial</a> and to explore the <a href="https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/quickstart.html">UMLS Quick Start Guide</a>, and other training materials.</p>
<p><strong>UMLS Terminology Services (UTS)</strong></p>
<p>The <a href="https://uts.nlm.nih.gov/metathesaurus.html">UTS Metathesaurus Browser</a> and the <a href="https://documentation.uts.nlm.nih.gov/">UTS SOAP API and REST API</a> include the updated release.</p>
<p>In addition, the <a href="https://uts.nlm.nih.gov/snomedctBrowser.html">UTS SNOMED CT Browser</a> now features the September 2020 US Edition of SNOMED CT.</p>
<p><strong>UMLS User Contributions</strong></p>
<p>UMLS users have extended the functionality of the UMLS in a variety of ways by developing APIs, automation scripts, and natural language processing tools. You can find a list of these on the <a href="https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/implementation_resources/community/index.html">UMLS Community</a> web page.</p>
<p>Want to add your tool? Send a request to the <a href="https://support.nlm.nih.gov/support/create-case/">NLM Support Center</a> with the subject line: "UMLS Community."
</p>
<p>Be sure to include a link to your source code so that other UMLS users can adapt your tool. We are especially interested in:</p>
<ul>
<li>Database load scripts</li>
<li>Transformation scripts that convert UMLS data into other formats (for example, RDF or JSON)</li>
<li>Scripts that automate any aspect of UMLS installation</li>
<li>Applications that leverage UMLS in the processing of text</li>
</ul>
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By
Victoria Wilder<br />
MEDLARS Management Section<br />
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