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

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

doi:10.1016/j.csbj.2016.02.004

Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal (Jan 2016)

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

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

Affiliations

Will Ray: Biomedical Informatics Research Center, Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, Marshfield, WI, USA
Joe Finamore: Biomedical Informatics Research Center, Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, Marshfield, WI, USA
Majid Rastegar-Mojarad: Biomedical Informatics Research Center, Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, Marshfield, WI, USA
Chris Kadolph: Biomedical Informatics Research Center, Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, Marshfield, WI, USA
Zhan Ye: Biomedical Informatics Research Center, Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, Marshfield, WI, USA
Jacquie Bohne: Biomedical Informatics Research Center, Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, Marshfield, WI, USA
Yin Xu: Biomedical Informatics Research Center, Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, Marshfield, WI, USA
Dan Burish: Marshfield Clinic, Marshfield, WI, USA
Joshua Sondelski: Marshfield Clinic, Marshfield, WI, USA
Melissa Easker: Marshfield Clinic, Marshfield, WI, USA
Brian Finnegan: George E. Magnin Medical Library, Marshfield Clinic, Marshfield, WI, USA
Barbara Bartkowiak: George E. Magnin Medical Library, Marshfield Clinic, Marshfield, WI, USA
Catherine Arnott Smith: School of Library and Information Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
Umberto Tachinardi: School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
Eneida A. Mendonca: School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
Bryan Weichelt: National Farm Medicine Center, Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, Marshfield, WI, USA
Simon M. Lin: Biomedical Informatics Research Center, Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, Marshfield, WI, USA

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csbj.2016.02.004
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 14, no. C
pp. 131 – 134

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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 evaluation using 63 randomly selected biomedical words suggests that online references generally provided better coverage (73%-95%) than paper-based dictionaries (57–71%).

Published in Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal

ISSN: 2001-0370 (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: Netherlands
LCC subjects: Technology: Chemical technology: Biotechnology
Website: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/computational-and-structural-biotechnology-journal

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