Drug approval data from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is a valuable resource for researchers, pharmaceutical professionals, and enthusiasts. Keeping track can give insight into trends from the department or what m ay be in the next in the drug pipeline.
This project, Drug NME, seeks to collect tools to allow users to quickly obtain this information and generate informative charts. Much of the code can be demoed here.
Drug NME obtains information from two methods - Web Scraping the FDA CDER website for New Drug Approvals or utilizing API from two sources - the OpenFDA or the Guide To Pharmacology.
The drug_nme can be installed as follows:
pip install drug_nme
and can be updated using:
pip install drug_nme -U
- Add module to get chemical name and numbering
- Add plot options for FDA sources
- Update tutorials
- Add additional plot styles
This repository was inspired from a blog post by Phyo Phyo Kyaw Zin, PhD.