Harvard:Biophysics 101/2007/Notebook:CChi/2007-4-19

Progress

 * WHO's useful data for us includes: incidence, prevalence, mortality, disability-adjusted life years for many diseases broken down by world subregion
 * Many are excel files
 * But all are scattered
 * I emailed the regional information officer regarding the possibility of gaining direct access to their database via download or biopython
 * Zach is working on OMIM keywords -> ICD9, California incidence numbers
 * With WHO, this can be carried out on a much larger scale
 * Is there great relevance in using the ICD system? It seems like this is an endpoint, so I'm not sure what else we'd do with these..