What about this website?
The idea of this website started a few months ago when a dear friend of mine (she is a doctor), asked to me if it was possible to develop a system to quickly and easily retrieve information about drugs to which breastfeeding mothers may be exposed. I’m Orfeo Morello, a computer engineer which deals with web and mobile application development for many years. I liked the idea of creating something useful and so I accepted the challenge.
I started to collects public domain information which i could reuse to achive the result. The information come mainly from five sources:
- NCI Thesaurus (NCIt) is a widely recognized standard for biomedical coding and reference. https://ncit.nci.nih.gov/ncitbrowser/ – [Terms of Use]
- LactMed, part of the National Library of Medicine’s (NLM). https://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/newtoxnet/lactmed.htm – [Terms of Use]
- MolView, an intuitive, Open-Source web-application to make science and education more awesome! https://molview.org/ – [Terms of Use]
- ChEMBL is a manually curated chemical database of bioactive molecules with drug-like properties. https://www.ebi.ac.uk/chembldb/ – [Terms of Use]
- MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) is the NLM controlled vocabulary thesaurus used for indexing articles for PubMed. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh – [Terms of Use]
What’s Next?
Create a Personal Assistant for Telegram app, an application similar to WhatsApp but fully programmable using it’s Bot API. I used some months to create a Telegram Bot to expose the medical information. A chatbot is a service, powered by rules and sometimes artificial intelligence, that you interact with via a chat interface. Bots are third-party applications that run inside Telegram messenger. Users can interact with bots by sending them messages, commands and inline requests. Read more …