TChan/Notebook/2007-4-14

Revision to Plans

 * Revised plan here.

Plans

 * I'm interested in using eMedicine to get treatment information on the diseases that we diagnose. This involves:
 * INPUT: disease name
 * Searching eMedicine for the disease name
 * How do I get to an interface where I can do this?
 * Getting (the right format of) returned information on the disease
 * Can I take it in HTML? I'm not sure how this site works.  I will email and see if they
 * Parsing the returned information so it's narrowed down to treatment options
 * How do I parse HTML?
 * OUTPUT: "Treatment: ..."


 * By Tu 4.17:
 * Email eMedicine to see if they have:
 * any BioPython-ready stuff
 * but really, see if there are easy ways to search the site and get data returned in a file format
 * If eMedicine's got nothing, I'll start at the back and hope other people can do the front:
 * write parser for the HTML that returns the Treatment options in a file


 * By Th 4.19:
 * Have talked to other people, and
 * Looked at web-interfacing code
 * Hopefully will be able to figure out a way to search the site and get HTML returned, with this help