semrep

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SemRep is a natural language processing program developed at the U.S. National Library of Medicine that extracts semantic predications (subject-relation-object triples) from biomedical text. It uses MetaMap to map free text onto Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) Metathesaurus concepts and the UMLS Semantic Network to assign relations, producing normalized assertions such as "Drug TREATS Disease". The semantic predications generated by SemRep over the PubMed corpus form the basis of SemMedDB, a PubMed-scale repository of biomedical predications widely reused for literature-based discovery and knowledge graph construction.

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ID Name URL Category Format Description
semrep.homepage SemRep / SemMedDB SKR Tools Page SemRep_SemMedDB_SKR.html GraphicalInterface http SemRep and SemMedDB tool homepage and...
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np-kg.graph.tsv NP-KG TSV NP-KG_v3.0.0.tsv?download=1 (1.0 GB) GraphProduct tsv had primary source Merged KG with ontology-grounded KG a...
np-kg.graph.networkx NP-KG gpickle NP-KG_v3.0.0.gpickle?download=1 (892.7 MB) GraphProduct mixed had primary source Merged KG with ontology-grounded KG a...

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SemRep

Description

SemRep is a rule-based semantic interpreter for biomedical text developed by the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). It identifies UMLS Metathesaurus concepts in free text via MetaMap and then uses the UMLS Semantic Network, together with linguistic structure, to extract semantic predications: subject-relation-object triples such as “Indomethacin INHIBITS Cyclooxygenase”. Running SemRep across the PubMed corpus produces SemMedDB, a PubMed-scale repository of these predications that serves as an upstream source for many downstream knowledge graphs, including NP-KG.

Products

  • SemRep / SemMedDB SKR Tools Page — the NLM Semantic Knowledge Representation (SKR) tool homepage providing documentation and access to the SemRep software and SemMedDB distributions.

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Created: June 18, 2026 | Last modified: June 18, 2026