Enhancing the drug ontology with semantically-rich representations of National Drug Codes and RxNorm unique concept identifiers

Enhancing the drug ontology with semantically-rich representations of National Drug Codes and RxNorm unique concept identifiers

Abstract Background The Drug Ontology (DrOn) is a modular, extensible ontology of drug products, their ingredients, and their biological activity created to enable comparative effectiveness and health services researchers to query National Drug Codes (NDCs) that represent products by ingredient, by...

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Main Authors: Jonathan P. Bona, Mathias Brochhausen, William R. Hogan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-12-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
Subjects:
Drug ontology
Ontology development
National drug codes
Rxcuis
Drug identifiers
Ontological realism
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-019-3192-8

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