Re: Any takers for reviewing and presenting to group evaluation of open source drug database?

I might be able to help. But I don't seem able to access the URL you provide.

Regards,
Daniel

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Daniel Rubin, MD, MS
Clinical Asst. Professor, Radiology
Research Scientist, Stanford Medical Informatics
Scientific Director, National Center of Biomedical Ontology
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Stanford, CA 94305
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At 10:55 PM 6/26/2007, Alan Ruttenberg wrote:

>The DrugDB database, http://www.e-mds.com/solutions/drug_database/ 
>drugdb.html is open source, and I have applied and received access to
>it. The initial format is Microsoft SQL Server backup file, and Colin
>Knep from the Alzforum has kindly converted it to MySQL, so it can
>either be loaded into MySQL or parsed as text (lots of SQL inserts).
>
>The goal of the evaluation is to review the contents of the database
>and the data model and present it to the group (or find adequate
>existing documentation on this), as a preliminary to evaluating
>whether we should convert it into RDF. Someone familiar with what is
>available in current drug databases and able to assess the quality
>and thoroughness of the contents would be very helpful in this effort.
>
>Let me know if you are interested, and I can give access to the files
>(assuming you accept the terms of the license)
>
>Best,
>Alan
>

Received on Wednesday, 27 June 2007 16:20:31 UTC