While working with the UMLS, we found that we needed a mapping between Entrez Gene ids and UMLS CUIs for genes. The UMLS Metathesaurus provides mainly mappings from CUIs to HGNC ids, but HGNC provides mappings to Entrez Gene.
The included parser extracts the UMLS info to determine the associated Entrez gene id for each UMLS CUI.
Automatically downloading and processing the UMLS Metathesaurus is a bit more complicated due to licensing issues, and will be addressed later.
While working with the UMLS, we found that we needed a mapping between Entrez Gene ids and UMLS CUIs for genes. The UMLS Metathesaurus provides mainly mappings from CUIs to HGNC ids, but HGNC provides mappings to Entrez Gene.
The included parser extracts the UMLS info to determine the associated Entrez gene id for each UMLS CUI.
Automatically downloading and processing the UMLS Metathesaurus is a bit more complicated due to licensing issues, and will be addressed later.