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SNOMED CT® Browsers

NLM Browser

Browser	URL	Free	Registration required	Web-based	Local installation	Notes
NLM SNOMED CT Browser	https://uts.nlm.nih.gov	x	x	x		Available from the Applications and SNOMED CT menus. Search for and display SNOMED CT content, as included in UMLS^® Metathesaurus^®. Expands searches to include synonymous terms from over 100 Metathesaurus vocabulary sources.

Other Browsers

The following tables list SNOMED CT terminology browsers that have been discussed in IHTSDO forums, cited in the paper below*, or submitted by UMLS users. This list is solely provided as an added resource and is not meant to be a comprehensive list of all SNOMED CT browsers.

To have a browser added to this list, send a message to NLM Customer Service with the subject “SNOMED CT Browser.” Please ensure that your browser complies with the IHTSDO Guidance on Provision of Publicly Available SNOMED CT Browsers and Related Services (PDF) before submitting it for inclusion in this list. This guidance is essential reading for any person or organization providing a web-based or other publicly available SNOMED CT browser, or a service that provides access to SNOMED CT. It is also relevant to users of such services.

Disclaimer: The National Library of Medicine (NLM) does not endorse in any way the browsers described in the following tables. NLM does not make any warranty, expressed or implied, or assume any liability or responsibility for the use of these browsers.

Active Browsers

Browser	URL	Free	Registration required	Web-based	Local installation	Notes
CliniClue	http://www.cliniclue.com	x	x		x
Federation Health Browser	http://www.federationhealth.com/browser	x		x		Data is Australian national release (with medicines terminology) and is restricted to Australian IP addresses.
HealthTerm	http://www.healthterm.com/		x	x		HealthTerm also contains modules for request submission, concept modelling, qualification, distribution, subset extraction, translation and mapping.
ITS (Integrated Terminology System)	http://www.itserver.es	x		x		Includes English and Spanish browsers, Web services, and ICD cross maps. Users can create exportable subsets.
MedTalk	http://www.pyebrook.com/medtalk%E2%84%A2-snomed-ct%C2%AE-browser/	x				Available for download in Android Market and runs on Android 2.2 Platform
Minnow	http://www.ict.csiro.au/downloads.php?swid=17&title=Snapper+-++Minnow+Edition	x	x		x	Java based, available for multiple platforms
Mycroft	http://apelon.com/Products/Mycroft/tabid/99/Default.aspx	x	x		x	Free, standalone, multi-terminology browser. Users can view terminology concepts in a hierarchical format, see details of concepts, search for concepts, and view relationships among concepts.
NCI Terminology Browser	http://ncit.nci.nih.gov/ncitbrowser/	x		x
OpenKnoME 5.4d and ClaW Workbench	http://www.opengalen.org/sources/software.html	x			x
Protégé	http://protege.stanford.edu	x	x		x	Java-based, extensible, plug and play environment
SNOB	http://snob.eggbird.eu	x			x	Multi-lingual interface, users can edit and add descriptions
SnoFlake	http://snomed.dataline.co.uk	x	x	x		Users must work in a healthcare organization that has a SNOMED CT license.
Snow Owl	http://www.b2international.com/portal/snow-owl	x	x		x	Java-based browser and authoring tool built integrating Protégé.
VTSL Browser	http://vtsl.vetmed.vt.edu/browser	x		x		Browser is designed to search and browse SNOMED CT International release as extended by VTSL to include the Veterinary Extension which now holds all non-human, veterinary content.
Visual Read	http://www.visualread.com				x

Inactive Browsers

Browser	Free	Registration required	Web-based	Notes
CaTTS (Coding and Taxonomy / Terminology Service)	x		x	Demo version only, from BT (British Telecommunications plc).
University of Sydney	x	x	x
HLi LExPlorer			x	Athens account required

*Rogers J, Bodenreider O. SNOMED CT: browsing the browsers. Paper accepted for presentation at: KR-MED 2008. Representing and sharing knowledge using SNOMED; 2008 May 31-Jun 2; Phoenix, Arizona. Available from: http://mor.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/pdf/2008-krmed-jr.pdf.

Cited with permission of authors.

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