Disease Information Fetcher is a Python program that searches for diseases and retrieves information about them, including associated symptoms, using the Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) API. It uses fuzzy string matching to select the closest matching disease when multiple results are found.

• Python 3.6 or higher

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/santimarro/disease-info-fetcher.git

2. Change into the disease-info-fetcher directory:

cd disease-info-fetcher

3. Install the required Python libraries:

pip install -r requirements.txt

1. Import the get_disease_data function from disease_info_fetcher.py:

from disease_info_fetcher import get_disease_data

2. Provide a list of disease names that you want to search for:

disease_names = ["Marfan syndrome", "Ehlers-Danlos syndrome"]

3. Call the get_disease_data function with the list of disease names. This function returns a list of dictionaries containing the disease information and associated symptoms:

disease_data = get_disease_data(disease_names)

4. Process the returned disease_data as needed. Each dictionary in the list contains the disease information and its associated symptoms. For example, you can print the disease data:

print(disease_data)

from disease_info_fetcher import get_disease_data

disease_names = ["Marfan syndrome", "Ehlers-Danlos syndrome"]
disease_data = get_disease_data(disease_names)
print(disease_data)

This example demonstrates how to search for two diseases, "Marfan syndrome" and "Ehlers-Danlos syndrome," and print the retrieved information and associated symptoms.

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.