Back in business! No more M-CRAP :D
What I plan to do in the near future
We've established that there is a demand to classify rs#'s based on clinical importance - one way to go about doing this relatively painlessly is to determine how many people are diagnosed with the disorder when given a disease name. With that in mind, I found a excel file from California which has disease names linked to the CDC naming convention, along with number diagnosed; if I can mine this file given a disease ID, or better yet just an rs#, then we have a basis by which to judge clinical importance.
Note: I'm really sorry guys, but I won't be able to work on this until after the 16th - I have the MCAT on the morning of, but afterwards I'll get to it. Hopefully it won't be too complicated though.
- CDC Database of morbidity:  , in text files which can be parsed
- Diagnosis Frequency data from state of California: 
- CDC information for causes of death (in pdf) 
4.18.07: Building off the discussion on 4.17.07, completed a module which takes as input OMIM keywords supplied by Resmi and co. and gives as output ICD9 IDs and prevalence information, based on data from the state of California.
To do: Make it more legible, conglomerate statistics, figure out a way to rank prevalence. Extension required: Find a dB which has ICD9 ID's and genetic prevalance - that would be a gold mine. literally.
Useful links (my own ref:)
- http://wonder.cdc.gov/ CDC data, server was down
- http://icd9cm.chrisendres.com/ ICD9 lookup
- http://www.webservicemart.com/icd9code.asmx?op=ICD9Codes field lookup i might use later
-  CA data source
#ICD9_prevalance.py #Zachary Sun #4.18.07, Biophysics 101 #This code does a couple of things: #1) Enables lookup of ICD9 ID numbers when given a search term # *This is particularly useful as all data (WHO, CDC) is based # *on the ICD9 ID, which is a method of classifying all known # *diseases. This code is able to queue a website, http://icd9cm.chrisendres.com # *which has the database of diseases - it returns the best hits # *in dirty HTML, which can then be parsed to obtain ICD9 #'s and description. #2) Enables lookup of prevalance data in databased # *Currently, I only have it hooked up to the State of CA prevalance data from # *, it does a # *lookup based on #1 and returns prevalance data. As soon as I find more databases # *I can extend the search; I haven't found much good though save the main CDC db # *at http://wonder.cdc.gov/. #To do: clean up output import os import string import urllib fh = open(os.path.join(os.curdir, "dx05.txt")) #the CA data file line = fh.readline() disease_name = "asthma" #INSERT DISEASE NAME HERE FOR TESTING ICD9code =  found = 0 #### #queueing http://icd9cm.chrisendres.com for code lookup #### queue_name = 'http://icd9cm.chrisendres.com/index.php?action=search&srchtype=diseases&srchtext=' queue_name = queue_name + disease_name code_lookup = urllib.urlopen(queue_name).read() #send queue request to site, returns dirty html out = open("index.txt", "w") #write dirty html to file out.write(code_lookup) out.close() readCode = open("index.txt", "r") #read dirty html lookup_line = readCode.readline() print "***ICD9 and hits, arranged by importance***\n" while lookup_line: w= lookup_line.find("<div class=dlvl>") #the unique marker before the disease if w != -1: #if it is found tempCode = lookup_line[32:40] #code in this section tempCode = string.split(tempCode, ' ') #split into number ICD9code.append(tempCode) print lookup_line[32:len(lookup_line)-7] #disable in final version - shows the hits found lookup_line = readCode.readline() #### #searching incidence data in CA data file #### print "\n\n***Prevalance data per IDC9 above***\n" while line: #for every line in the data line = line[:-1] #remove /n lineVector = string.split(line, ',') #split to vector for code in ICD9code: if lineVector.find(code) != -1: #if disease hit print "Found ID ",code," , incidence: " , lineVector break line = fh.readline()
***ICD9 and hits, arranged by importance*** 493.0 Extrinsic asthma 493.1 Intrinsic asthma 493.9 Asthma, unspecified 495.8 Other specified allergic alveolitis and pneumonitis 493.2 Chronic obstructive asthma V17.5 Asthma</div> 493.8 Other forms of asthma</div> 493.82 Cough variant asthma</div> 507.8 Due to other solids and liquids 786.07 Wheezing ***Prevalance data per IDC9 above*** Found ID 493.0 , incidence: 7033 Found ID 493.0 , incidence: 2354 Found ID 493.0 , incidence: 4307 Found ID 493.1 , incidence: 69 Found ID 493.1 , incidence: 27 Found ID 493.1 , incidence: 52 Found ID 493.2 , incidence: 29291 Found ID 493.2 , incidence: 1447 Found ID 493.2 , incidence: 20240 Found ID 493.8 , incidence: 332 Found ID 493.8 , incidence: 36 Found ID 493.9 , incidence: 123688 Found ID 493.9 , incidence: 4839 Found ID 493.9 , incidence: 21918 Found ID 495.8 , incidence: 38 Found ID 507.8 , incidence: 232 Found ID 786.07 , incidence: 932 Found ID V17.5 , incidence: 1766