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openFDA is a research project to provide open APIs, raw data downloads, documentation and examples, and a developer community for an important collection of FDA public datasets.

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openFDA is a research project to provide open APIs, raw data downloads, documentation and examples, and a developer community for an important collection of FDA public datasets.

Please note that openFDA is a beta research project and not for clinical use. While we make every effort to ensure that data and logic are accurate, you should assume all results are unvalidated.

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This repository contains the code which powers the api.fda.gov/drug/event.json end point:

  • A python pipeline written with Luigi for processing the public AERS SGML and FAERS XML Quarterly Data Extracts into an Adverse Event JSON format that can be loaded into Elasticsearch. This process includes de-duping follow-up reports and adding an openfda section to the drug section of the JSON containing additional drug information from other data sources (including FDA, NLM and VA).

  • An Elasticsearch schema for the Adverse Event JSON format.

  • A Node.js API Server written with Express, Elasticsearch.js and Elastic.js that communicates with Elasticsearch and provides the api.fda.gov/drug/event.json interface (documented in detail at http://open.fda.gov).

Prerequisites

  • Elasticsearch 1.2.0 or later
  • Python 2.7.*
  • Node 0.10.*

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Run bootstrap.sh to download and setup a virtualenv for the openfda python package and to download and setup the openfda-api node package.

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