As part of the PhUSE project Going Translational with Linked Data (GoTWLD) we use the rdflib package to translate MedDRA terminology to Linked Data as RDF Triples.
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Use Case URL
MedDRA Terminology Conversion to RDF
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Sector
Pharmaceutical, Biotech, Medical/Healthcare
Field(s) of application
Medical terminology coding including Adverse Events. Biomedical research, Pharmaceutical industry.
What did you do?
Used an ontology-based approach to convert the multiple hierarchical ASCii files to a unified Linked Data Graph representation. MedDRA terminology files are under license, but the conversion R scripts are freely available to anyone who wishes to convert their MedDRA coding to Linked Data.
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