appears_in: []
contact:
  email: custserv@nlm.nih.gov
  name: NLM Customer Service
contributor_extras:
- email: baum@zbmed.de
  github: rombaum
  name: Roman Baum
  orcid: 0000-0001-5246-9351
depends_on: []
deprecated: false
description: MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) is the National Library of Medicine's
  controlled vocabulary thesaurus. It consists of sets of terms naming descriptors
  in a hierarchical structure that permits searching at various levels of specificity.
  This thesaurus is used by NLM for indexing articles from biomedical journals, cataloguing
  of books, documents, etc.
download_json: https://w3id.org/biopragmatics/resources/mesh/mesh.json.gz
download_obo: https://w3id.org/biopragmatics/resources/mesh/mesh.obo
download_owl: https://w3id.org/biopragmatics/resources/mesh/mesh.owl.gz
example: C063233
example_extras:
- D000001
- Q000473
homepage: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/
keywords:
- bioinformatics
- biomedical science
- classification
- data retrieval
- life science
- literature curation
- metascience
- ontology
- ontology/terminology/nomenclature
- phenotype
- topics
license: CC0-1.0
logo: https://meshb.nlm.nih.gov/public/img/meshLogo.jpg
mappings:
  aberowl: MESH
  bartoc: '391'
  biocontext: MESH
  biolink: MESH
  bioportal: MESH
  cellosaurus: MeSH
  edam: '1177'
  fairsharing: FAIRsharing.qnkw45
  go: MeSH
  hl7: 2.16.840.1.113883.6.177
  integbio: nbdc00132
  miriam: mesh
  n2t: mesh
  ols: mesh
  prefixcommons: mesh
  togoid: Mesh
  wikidata: P486
  wikidata.entity: Q199897
name: Medical Subject Headings
namespace_in_lui: false
owners:
- name: National Library of Medicine, Maryland
  ror: 0060t0j89
pattern: ^(C|D|Q)\d+$
preferred_prefix: mesh
prefix: mesh
providers:
- code: ''
  description: MeSH Linked Data at National Library of Medicine
  homepage: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/
  name: MeSH Linked Data at National Library of Medicine
  uri_format: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/$1
- code: bio2rdf
  description: Bio2RDF is an open-source project that uses Semantic Web technologies
    to build and provide the largest network of Linked Data for the Life Sciences.
    Bio2RDF defines a set of simple conventions to create RDF(S) compatible Linked
    Data from a diverse set of heterogeneously formatted sources obtained from multiple
    data providers.
  homepage: https://bio2rdf.org
  name: Bio2RDF
  uri_format: http://bio2rdf.org/mesh:$1
- code: bioportal.purl
  description: The BioPortal version of MeSH. Should be re-coded to `bioportal`, see
    https://github.com/biopragmatics/bioregistry/pull/1066.
  homepage: https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/MESH
  name: BioPortal
  uri_format: http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/$1
- code: mesh.2008
  description: Appears in birnlex
  homepage: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/
  name: Legacy 2008 MeSH URL
  uri_format: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/cgi/mesh/2008/MB_cgi?field=uid&term=$1
- code: mesh.json-ld
  description: The MeSH version in JSON-LD.
  first_party: true
  homepage: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/
  name: Medical Subject Headings (JSON-LD)
  uri_format: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/$1.json-ld
- code: mesh.n3
  description: The MeSH version in N3.
  first_party: true
  homepage: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/
  name: Medical Subject Headings (N3)
  uri_format: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/$1.n3
- code: mesh.ttl
  description: The MeSH version in TTL.
  first_party: true
  homepage: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/
  name: Medical Subject Headings (TTL)
  uri_format: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/$1.ttl
publications:
- pubmed: '20623263'
- pubmed: '15360776'
- pmc: PMC197951
  pubmed: '13982385'
  title: Medical subject headings
  year: 1963
rdf_uri_format: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/$1
synonyms:
- MESH
- MESHA
- MESHC
- MESHCS
- MESHD
- MESHPP
- MESH_DESCRIPTOR_UI
- MESH_SUPPLEMENTAL_RECORD_UI
- MSH
- MSH2010_2010_02_22
- MeSH
- meshUID
uri_format: https://meshb.nlm.nih.gov/record/ui?ui=$1
