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The SNOMED CT Browsers allows the user to navigate the terminology, see the different components and the relationships between them.

SNOMED CT is distributed to its users as a release package that contains a collection of plain text files that follows the RF2 specification. A Browser offers a view of the content of SNOMED CT that results from the processing of the release packages content and the creation of a friendly User Interface in order to support basic functions like:

• Search: the ability to search SNOMED CT content using terms, even partial terms, or component IDs. The browser can provide different ways to filter results, constraining to states, languages, modules, etc.
• Hierarchy navigation: most browser provide a way for the user to navigate the SNOMED CT hierarchies, visualizing the parents, children, ancestors and descendants for any concept.
• Concept details: Concepts are identified by ConceptIds, browsers include features to present to the user all information linked to a concept, including the descriptions, some times filtered by language, the concept definitions, inferred relationships and reference set memberships, which includes mappings.
• Refset browsing: some browsers present a list of available refsets, and list their member components and attributes.
• ECL queries: many browsers allow for the entry and execution of Expression Constraint Language queries. ECL provides an advanced mechanism to filter SNOMED CT content and its used to support constrained data entry in clinical applications, to support meaning based analytics, for quality assurance purposes, etc.
• Graphical representations: browsers can render the concept definitions as diagrams following the standard diagramming guidelines, or can produce hierarchy graphs that show the relationships of a concept with others.

SNOMED International SNOMED CT Browser

This browser is maintained by SNOMED International and the content is updated for each release of SNOMED International managed editions, and with content contributed by National Release Centers.

It's a free access, web-based application, and the source code is available as open-source on GitHub.

• Browser: https://browser.ihtsdotools.org/
• Source code project: https://github.com/IHTSDO/sct-browser-frontend  

Other SNOMED CT Browsers

This is a list of browsers developed and maintained by third parties. Please submit any new browsers to include in the list or report problems accessing the ones listed here using the feedback button at the end of the page.

• National Library of Medicine SNOMED CT Browser, US
  • https://uts.nlm.nih.gov/
• NICTIZ Browser, Netherlands
  • http://terminologie.nictiz.nl/snomed
• Meaningful Query, B2I Healthcare
  • http://mq.b2i.sg
• Shrimp SNOMED CT Browser, CSIRO, Australia
  • http://ontoserver.csiro.au/shrimp
• West Coast SNOMED Terminology Server, West Coast Informatics
  • https://snomed.terminology.tools
• VTSL Terminology Browser, Veterinary Terminology Services Lab at Virginia Tech, US
  • https://vtsl.vetmed.vt.edu/
• SnoChillies Browser, Valentia Technologies Limited, New Zealand
  • https://snochillies.com/
• Bioportal, NCBO - National Center for Biomedical Ontology, US
  • https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/SNOMEDCT
• Athena, Odysseus Data Services, Inc., US
  • https://athena.ohdsi.org/search-terms/start
• Stom Browser, InfoClinic, Korea
  • http://stom.infoclinic.co/
• CSNOtk, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing(C-DAC), Pune, India (Downloadable app)
  • https://cdac.in/index.aspx?id=hi_hs_medinfo_csno_overview