ABSTRACT
Nomenclatures are comprehensive repositories of domain terminologies. Moreover, modern nomenclatures are keys to all the knowledge pertaining to any of the terms in the nomenclature. A well-organized, comprehensive nomenclature can be used to annotate and index any information in any document, and permit that information to be retrieved and merged with relevant information contained in other documents. Under ideal conditions, a nomenclature creates new knowledge by exploiting the relationships among terms that annotate the biomedical literature.
