Project ATRO

Hello everyone, We had our final steering group meeting a few weeks ago and delivered the crawler, database and all the documentation we created. During this meeting we also drew the project to a close. This project taught us a…
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Hello! We have made quite a lot of progress since our last post. We have completed the crawler and all the functionality for our proof-of-concept is in place. The crawler can now crawl PubMed in its entirety and compare the…
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Hello! Quite a lot has happened since our last post two weeks ago. In our last meeting with Mika it became apparent that we had not quite grasped the sheer volume of articles that we had to crawl. Initially, we…
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Hello, In our last post we said we were leaning towards MariaDB and PostgreSQL. We ended up choosing PostgreSQL as our database and have made solid progress with development. We have developed the structure for our database (schema) and now…
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Hello folks! Mika suggested that we, the ATRO development team members, kept a DevBlog on the progress we are making on the web crawler. We thought this was a rather nice idea and a good way to document what we…
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ATRO, Als Tiedonkeruu RObotti (Als Information Gathering Robot in English) is an application for collecting ALS related information from public sources. The data is collected for the different kind of analysis purposes to be developed later, especially for relational visualization…
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Below I have listed the different categories under which each entity operated on by the web crawler will fall. Genes Proteins Molecules (drugs) Transmitters (neurotransmitters, inflammatory cytokines etc.) Receptors Processes (e.g. apoptosis, glycolysis, oxidative phosphorylation) Effect (upregulates, downregulates) ALS type…
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This category is meant as a showcase of the first subtask of ARTEMIS – designing and coding the first versions of the custom web crawler and the associated database.