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Important thing TODO, from today’s meeting:  Create a validation set – Extract OMIM disease-gene links.  Map OMIM genes to Entrez Gene.  Map OMIM diseases to MeSH terms.
Of these, the OMIM-MeSH is likely the hard part.  I should do this by UMLS, but UMLS is the ugliest database I’ve ever seen.  Must no longer be afraid…

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Creating local UMLS repository

Selected for the first pass the following subset of the UMLS: MeSH, ICD9-CM, ICD10, SNOMED CT, Gene Ontology and HUGO gene nomenclature. Ignored the non-english bits for now, and didn’t tinker with the suppressibility. After that…it seems that it’s off to the races.
Also currently running checks on the mysql databases. [...]

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