Welcome to our Biomedical Abbreviation Server!

We have scanned 11,447,996 PubMed citations for abbreviations and put them in a database. The database currently has 2,074,367 abbreviations. This work has been published in:
Chang JT, Schütze H, and Altman RB (2002). Creating an Online Dictionary of Abbreviations from MEDLINE. The Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 9(6): 612-20.
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Search the database for an abbreviation or some words in the long form:

  • Example: CDK kinase
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    Search for abbreviations in some text.

    You can access this functionality from computer programs using XML-RPC. We have provided bindings for Python, PERL, and Java. There is code and documentation at http://bionlp.stanford.edu/webservices.html.

    Change Notes:
    4/13/2003 Upgraded Zope to 2.61.
    12/4/2002 Installed aggregating version of server.
    5/2/2002 Small bug fix in dynamic programming code.
    3/30/2002 Described in paper, used to scan MEDLINE.
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