/uts-rest-api

A repository of code samples in various languages that show how to use the UMLS Terminology Services REST API

uts-rest-api (beta)

This repository features code samples in various languages that show how to use the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) Terminology Services REST API.

The UMLS is published twice per year (November and May) as a service of the National Library of Medicine.

For more information please see the UMLS REST API technical documentation.

Java

To run the Java samples, you can clone this repostiory and then import the pom.xml as an existing maven project in Eclipse or other IDE. Each java class can be run as a Junit4 test.

###Perl To run the perl clients, you'll need to install the following perl modules:

  • JSON
  • URI
  • GET
  • LWP::UserAgent
  • HTML::Form

###Python To run the python clients, you'll need to have at Python version 2.7 or above installed on your system. The scripts have been tested on 2.7 as well as Python 3.0. You will also need the following python libraries installed:

  • requests
  • json
  • argparse
  • pyquery
  • lxml