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EMTREE is one of the most comprehensive thesauri available for Life Science information, with a unique focus on drug terminology.
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- Easy to search:
with access via more than 218,000 synonyms; each term has on average more than four synonyms
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- Comprehensive drug searching:
EMTREE includes chemical names, trade names, and laboratory/research codes as well as generic names for more than 25,000 drugs and chemicals.
- Up-to-date:
the latest drugs, diseases, organisms and procedures are indexed as candidate terms throughout the year, and the most frequently used terms are added annually to EMTREE
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- Explosion (tree) searching:
facilitated by EMTREE's extensive hierarchical structure, with up to 12 levels
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- Polyhierarchical structure: no need to know "where" terms are located in the EMTREE structure.
- Natural language terminology: no need to know "how" terms are defined in EMTREE.
- Inclusive terminology:
includes all MeSH terms and many Enzyme Commission (EC) numbers, with links to more than 20,000 CAS registry numbers.
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In order to facilitate fast and precise searching, the electronic version of the EMTREE thesaurus is available for licensing. |
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