Let’s try to get a brief overview of what UMLS is, and then we’ll jump into more details. So, in simple terms, UMLS is a collection of many controlled biomedical vocabularies to provide cross-walk among them and to enable interaction between computer systems. To simplify it further, there are multiple biomedical vocabularies out there developed by different organizations. Each of them has come up with their own set of IDs assigned to each term. UMLS helps in mapping each of them to one co...
