@KitRedgrave Oh, it's converting it I think somehow. I'm going to look at what it's using.

@KitRedgrave HAHA AWESOME

if I'm reading this write it loads it all into racket hashtables and then serializes them as racket files https://github.com/webyrd/mediKanren/blob/master/code/db.rkt

@KitRedgrave *if I'm reading this right

but oddly appropriate typo

@cwebber so it's a nifty use of minikanren but they have a ways to go

@er1n @cwebber oh cool, somebody went and solved that problem. at least for now

@KitRedgrave @cwebber "The Semantic MEDLINE Database (SemMedDB) [1] is a repository of semantic predications (subject-predicate-object triples) extracted by SemRep, a semantic interpreter of biomedical text [2]."

@er1n Oh I didn't realize @KitRedgrave meant the data... I thought we were talking about the data store!

Not the only cool resource published by the us gov and in the public domain... the USDA nutrition database is also cool as hell https://www.ars.usda.gov/northeast-area/beltsville-md-bhnrc/beltsville-human-nutrition-research-center/nutrient-data-laboratory/docs/sr28-download-files/

@cwebber @er1n yeah. reading that many papers and getting the knowledge is not at all trivial! interesting that they had some way of getting that large a knowledgebase... though one has to wonder how valid some of it is given that some branches of science have had bad problems with replicable results

@KitRedgrave @er1n I wonder if it's data the FDA itself used for its evaluation of whether or not a drug may be introduced to the market?

@KitRedgrave @er1n @cwebber No, as it hasn't been nearly validated enough. That might help guide what to study, but you are never going to beat a properly done three-phase trial of thousands of people for finding problems with a drug.

@KitRedgrave @cwebber https://skr3.nlm.nih.gov/SemMedDB/