Harvard:Biophysics 101/2007/Notebook:Info Output/

Plan

General

• GOAL: Use MedStory (currently in beta - features and XML parsing may change) to deliver info that a newly-diagnosed user would be interested in seeing:
  • Drugs and substances of interest
  • Procedures
  • Drugs in clinical studies
  • Clinical trials

• Other possible information we should consider showing the patient:
  • Experts
  • Research centers
  • Genes

Possible Issues

• • Is it somewhat ethically suspect to simply swipe these things (even if they're credited) from MedStory?
  • The format of MedStory does have XML-based (and thus, easily Python-parsable) sections, including News and Clinical Trials, but it doesn't have it for the bar-graphed items, which include information we really want to present to the user.

Tiff's Plan/Work

• Will try to figure out:
  • Drugs
  • Clinical trials

Deniz's Plan/Work

• Will write a function to retrieve
  • Useful links (a more 'respectable' stable of sites)
  • Ongoing Drug trials