Source List Help

Follow the steps below to complete this screen.


  1. Specify whether selected sources (vocabularies) will be included or excluded from your subset by selecting one of the two radio buttons.

  2. Select sources by clicking anywhere in the sources row. Sources that have already been selected will be highlighted in blue, and reflect the default subset selected earlier. [Control] mouse click to add another source to the selection, or to deselect a source.
  3. Note: By default all sources with a Restriction Level greater than zero have been preselected for exclusion.

Advanced Source List Options are accessible through the Options Menu at the top of the screen:

To select options, click inside the checkbox or radio button in front of each option.

Source List behavior is effected by the MetamorphoSys Options. This menu is accessible through the Options Menu at the top of the screen.

There is only one option on the MetamorphoSys Options menu:


Auto Select Related Items - If this check box is selected the (de)selection of related sources will be automatic. (Users who select this box will not receive a prompt before related sources are selected or deselected.


This completes the options for this tab. Users may proceed to the other Options tabs in any order by clicking on the tabs across the top of the screen or by clicking on the File bar and selecting .

For more information, see the UMLS Release Documentation, Chapter 6, MetamorphoSys, at:

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/meta6.html