SNOB - A SNOMED Browser

SNOB Users

A number of SNOB users have agreed to be named on this website. They have provided a short description about what they are using SNOB for. If you want the be included on this page, please send me an email with your name and institution and a short description.

• Jeremy Rogers at UK Terminology Centre
• Josef Ingenerf at the University of Lübeck
• Daniel Karlsson at Linköping University
• Pieter Zanstra
• Zied Kallel at InfoWay at Canada Health Infoway Inc.

Jeremy Rogers at UK Terminology Centre

I use SNOB for checking UK and international content against a draft machine readable concept model; exploring how SNOMED content has changed or been remodelled in situ over time; keeping track of (and sharing) my collection of questions or bug reports about the content; debugging other algorithms that use SNOMED content (e.g. construction of 5-byte READ to SNOMED, and CTV3-to-SNOMED mapping tables); finding and presenting examples to illustrate technical content issues being discussed in the UKTC and IHTSDO; investigating the possible value of novel subsets. I'm also the author of the SNOMED CT - Test and Compliance Model.

Josef Ingenerf at the University of Lübeck

At the University of Luebeck Bachelor- and Master Degree programmes in Computer Science can be studied with Medical Informatics as the second subject. Amongst others courses in formal terminologies (ontologies) in health care are offered. Topics are amongst others:

• Classifications, terminologies / ontologies in Healthcare (relationship / differentiation, concrete vocabularies, i.e. included in UMLS)
• Description Logics (Semantic Web, OWL, Tools like Protégé),
• GALEN approach (GRAIL, CORE model, Tools like OpenGALEN , e.g. multilingual data entry, reconstruction of the semantics of classifications)
• SNOMED CT (DL dialect EL+ , concept model incl. SEP-triple approach, Tools like CliniClue)
• ...

Having studied the GALEN methodology (especially the sanctioning mechanism, e.g., supporting an intelligent structured data entry) it is interesting to work with SNOB an alternative SNOMED CT browser. It is an easy, efficient and powerful tool for exploring SNOMED CT with interesting features like the check against a MetaModel with constraints concerning sensible attribute-value-combinations.

Daniel Karlsson and Hans Åhlfeldt at Department of Biomedical Engineering/Medical Informatics, Linköping University, Sweden

we are, I think, at least four users of SNOB at our department and at least for myself, I'm a very happy user. I'm also recommending SNOB to other people involved in the Swedish SNOMED CT project. I mostly use SNOB to find concept identifiers for mapping to information models, e.g. archetypes, in most cases after building new post-coordinated representations. This post-coordination is unfortunately mostly done by hand.

Pieter Zanstra

I use SNOB for two purposes.
1) To study the soundness and consistency of the SNOMED CT model, and to compare it with the OpenGALEN approach.
2) I am interested in an open process of terminology development and maintenance. I cooperate with the author of SNOB and others in a proof of concept to create public open feedback facilities. SNOB can be configured to publicly share your visions on SNOMED content in this public framework.

Zied Kallel at InfoWay at Canada Health Infoway Inc.

I'm interested in SNOB in terms of functionalities in comparison with other freeware browsers and how much flexibility it offers to users.