The RxClass Browser is a web application for exploring and navigating through the class hierarchies to find the RxNorm drug members associated with each class. RxClass links drug classes of several drug sources including ATC, MeSH, NDF-RT and FDA/SPL to their RxNorm drug members (ingredients, precise ingredients and multiple ingredients). RxClass allows users to search by class name or identifier to find the RxNorm drug members or, conversely, search by RxNorm drug name or identifier to find the classes that the RxNorm drug is a member of.
RxNorm provides normalized names for clinical drugs and links its names to many of the drug vocabularies commonly used in pharmacy management and drug interaction software, including those of First Databank, Micromedex, Gold Standard, and Multum. By providing links between these vocabularies, RxNorm can mediate messages between systems not using the same software and vocabulary. Technical documentation at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/rxnorm/docs/index.html
MetaMap is a highly configurable application developed by the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications at the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to map biomedical text to the UMLS Metathesaurus or, equivalently, to identify Metathesaurus concepts referred to in English text. MetaMap employs a knowledge-intensive approach, natural-language processing (NLP), and computational-linguistic techniques, and is used worldwide in industry and academia. At NLM, MetaMap is one of the foundations of NLM's Medical Text Indexer (MTI), which is applied to both semiautomatic and fully automatic indexing of biomedical literature. Technical documentation at http://metamap.nlm.nih.gov/#Downloads