MD-CTS: An integrated terminology reference of clinical and translational medicine

Publication date: Available online 2 March 2016 Source:Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal Author(s): Will Ray, Joe Finamore, Majid Rastegar-Mojarad, Chris Kadolph, Zhan Ye, Jacquie Bohne, Yin Xu, Dan Burish, Joshua Sondelski, Melissa Easker, Brian Finnegan, Barbara Bartkowiak, Catherine Arnott Smith, Umberto Tachinardi, Eneida A. Mendonca, Bryan Weichelt, Simon M. Lin New vocabularies are rapidly evolving in the literature relative to the practice of clinical medicine and translational research. To provide integrated access to new terms, we developed a mobile and desktop online reference—Marshfield Dictionary of Clinical and Translational Science (MD-CTS). It is the first public resource that comprehensively integrates Wiktionary (word definition), BioPortal (ontology), Wiki (image reference), and Medline abstract (word usage) information. MD-CTS is accessible at http://spellchecker.mfldclin.edu /. The website provides a broadened capacity for the wider clinical and translational science community to keep pace with newly emerging scientific vocabulary. An initial evualtion using 63 randomly slected biomedical words suggests that online references genrally provided better coverage (73%-95%) than paper-based dictionaries (57–71%).
Source: Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal - Category: Biotechnology Source Type: research