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Ray W, Finamore J, Rastegar-Mojarad M, Kadolph C, Ye Z, Bohne J, Xu Y, Burish D, Sondelski J, Easker M, Finnegan B, Bartkowiak B, Smith CA, Tachinardi U, Mendonca EA, Weichelt B, Lin SM. MD-CTS: An integrated terminology reference of clinical and translational medicine. Comput Struct Biotechnol J 2016; 14:131-4. [PMID: 27069559 PMCID: PMC4810012 DOI: 10.1016/j.csbj.2016.02.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2015] [Revised: 02/22/2016] [Accepted: 02/22/2016] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
Abstract
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%).
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Affiliation(s)
- 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
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- George E. Magnin Medical Library, Marshfield Clinic, Marshfield, WI, USA
| | - Barbara Bartkowiak
- George E. Magnin Medical Library, Marshfield Clinic, Marshfield, WI, USA
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- 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
- Corresponding author at: The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, 575 Children's Crossroad, Columbus, OH 43017, USA.The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital575 Children's CrossroadColumbusOH43017USA
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