UBERON Terminology Files

The UBERON Terminology contains a set of anatomical terms in NCI Thesaurus (NCIt) that have been mapped to terms with equivalent meaning in the Uber-anatomy ontology UBERON.
UBERON is an integrated cross-species anatomy ontology representing a variety of entities classified according to traditional anatomical criteria such as structure, function and developmental lineage. The ontology includes comprehensive relationships to taxon-specific anatomical ontologies, allowing integration of functional, phenotype and expression data.

Files available for download: https://evs.nci.nih.gov/ftp1/UBERON/UBERON_Terminology.xls

This spreadsheet has the following column headers on the first row:

Spreadsheet Column Content Description

Subset Code The NCIt concept code attached to the subset concept. NCIt Codes are unique strings that begin with a C and are followed by a series of digits.

Subset Term The name of the terminology subset.

NCIt Concept Code The NCIt concept code attached to the NCIt concept that has been mapped to an UBERON concept.

NCIt Preferred Term The term chosen by NCI EVS subject matter expert that unambiguously describes the concept.

NCIt Definition A text definition of the term created by an NCI EVS subject matter expert.

UBERON Code The concept code provided by UBERON. UBERON codes are unique strings that begin with UBERON: followed by seven digits.

UBERON Preferred Term The label for the concept as provided by UBERON.

UBERON Synonym(s) Terms provided by UBERON that are exact synonyms for the UBERON label (UBERON Preferred Term).

UBERON Definition A textual description for the concept provided by UBERON.

Spreadsheet Column	Content Description
Subset Code	The NCIt concept code attached to the subset concept. NCIt Codes are unique strings that begin with a C and are followed by a series of digits.
Subset Term	The name of the terminology subset.
NCIt Concept Code	The NCIt concept code attached to the NCIt concept that has been mapped to an UBERON concept.
NCIt Preferred Term	The term chosen by NCI EVS subject matter expert that unambiguously describes the concept.
NCIt Definition	A text definition of the term created by an NCI EVS subject matter expert.
UBERON Code	The concept code provided by UBERON. UBERON codes are unique strings that begin with UBERON: followed by seven digits.
UBERON Preferred Term	The label for the concept as provided by UBERON.
UBERON Synonym(s)	Terms provided by UBERON that are exact synonyms for the UBERON label (UBERON Preferred Term).
UBERON Definition	A textual description for the concept provided by UBERON.

N.B.: If there are no changes to the data for a particular month, the files will not be reposted.

Also included on the NCI EVS ftp site (https://evs.nci.nih.gov/ftp1/UBERON/) are the following additional files:

About (This file)
Changes.txt (A text file of changes between the most recent and the current version of UBERON terminology. For each change record, the Changes.txt contains a complete row of tab delimited data with the same data elements as described above. An A will precede any new concept additions, a C will precede any modification to existing concepts, and a D will precede any concepts that have been deleted.)
Version.txt (A text file that contains the version of NCI Thesaurus that corresponds to the current spreadsheet data. The database is reconciled the last Monday of every month. The files will be posted during the following two weeks. The version appears as YR.MOweek. An example is 23.04d which corresponds to the year 2023, the month of April, and the d refers to the fourth Monday of the month.)

Archived files are available at:

: Archive/ Directory of dated release versions.

Help requests on these files should go to NCIThesaurus@mail.nih.gov