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