Re: NDF-RT and Canada

thanks Richard and Michel

Very helpful, I'm sure I will have more questions soon.

Marc


On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 8:08 PM, Richard Boyce <rdb20@pitt.edu> wrote:

> Hi Marc,
>
> Attached is a script that will get all DDIs from NDF-RT using a query to
> the Bioportal SPARQL endpoint. The data is output to as a dictionary to a
> Python pickle. wrt mapping, one thing I know about NDF-RT is it uses salt
> forms as the primary label for many of its drugs so mapping  requires a bit
> of careful thought. If DPD is mapped to FDA UNII or RxNORM (active
> ingredients) than I would see if I can use queries to RxNorm (SQL) to
> complete the mapping because it appears to be complete as evidenced by
> RxNav.
>
> kind regards,
> -Rich
>
>
> On 09/20/2013 10:11 AM, Marc Dumontier wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>>
>> Is anyone aware of any open work done on querying data out of NDF-RT, or
>> some informative literature on anyone mapping Canadian drugs to it?
>>
>> I've been asked to match as many Canadian drugs from the Health Canada
>> Drug Product Database (DPD) to equivalent formulations in the NDF-RT
>>
>> Once I have those mappings, I will need to query for the drug
>> interactions within, and probably expose some of the other linkages, but
>> the initial goal is is get the drug interactions.
>>
>> I've loaded the OWL release in Apache Jena with no problem, and started
>> writing some very basic SPARQL queries. I will need help stepping them up :)
>>
>> Thanks
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>> Marc Dumontier
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>>
>>
>
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