"Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence." Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, alias Paracelsus. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracelsus]
This repository is dedicated to the study of compounds with establised or presumptive therapeutic properties.
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step#1: the OrangeBookDataCollection.R script loads the US FDA Orange Book Products table and returns a set (vector) of non-redundant ingredients. When invoked, the script downloads ~6MB amount of data to the local storage.
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step#2: the NIH PubChem Compound DB is queried with the set of Orange Book Ingredient names. The PubChem compound CID attributes is retrieved.
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step#3: curating the current set of ingredients.