UMLS: : Similarity: Measuring the Relatedness and Similarity of Biomedical Concepts

Bridget T. McInnes, Ted Pedersen, Serguei V. S. Pakhomov, Ying Liu, Genevieve Melton-Meaux

Abstract: UMLS::Similarity is freely available open source software that allows a user to measure the semantic similarity or relatedness of biomedical terms found in the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS). It is written in Perl and can be used via a command line interface, an API, or a Web interface.