Internship Presentation

Madhumita Narayan

About Me!

• Rising senior at Del Norte High School
• Competed in STEM Competitions

What I’ve Been Working On

API Creation

BioThings Explorer

• Data → API
• Writing parsers using Python

• Fixing issues on the BioThings Explorer Project

What is an API?

• Allows two applications to communicate
• Send request to API, and get data in return

Why use APIs?

source: https://www.dropbox.com/s/l2tuhzk2ktdguth/BioThings%20Explorer%20Guest%20Lecture%20at%20UCLA%2020220121%20b%20short.pptx?dl=0

What is GTRx?

source: https://gtrx.rbsapp.net/

Making GTRx into an API

Deploy API using BioThings SDK

Parse data into JSON documents using Python

Data File

The Data

The Data (cont)

• Disease Information
• Condition Name
• Frequency
• Inheritance pattern
• Clinical summary
• Alternate Names
• OMIM
• Intervention Information
• Names
• Inxight
• Timeframe
• Age use
• Effectiveness
• References

Disease

Intervention group

Parsing

JSON Document

Query

Complications

• Data not loading properly
• Grouping information
• Duplicate IDs
• Overall learning curve

Generating a lot of traffic for stack overflow:

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Conclusion

• Add additional interventions
• Manually map INXIGHTs
• Integrate this into BTE

THANKS!

Sources

https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/article/38/7/2077/6502302?login=false

https://www.dropbox.com/s/l2tuhzk2ktdguth/BioThings%20Explorer%20Guest%20Lecture%20at%20UCLA%2020220121%20b%20short.pptx?dl=0

https://www.uab.edu/news/health/item/10703-diagnosis-in-2-127-seconds-solving-a-years-long-vomiting-mystery-using-ai-research-and-brain-power

https://gtrx.rbsapp.net/

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