API for getting data from a disease name?

Question

For example, entering: "lung Adenocarcinoma" should return (JSON preferably) large chunks of information about that disease, such as definition, alternate names, validity, treatments, signs, etc..

I've tried using the seer API. but I run into an issue trying to get the correct disease identifier. If I try inputting "lung Adenocarcinoma" into the disease search endpoint, I get no results.

{
terms: [
"lung adenocarcinoma"
],
total: 0,
count: 25,
order: "score"
}

Answer 1

Have you tried a Wolfram Alpha search. There is a lot of information there.

Wolfram|Alpha: lung adenocarcinoma

You can get this information in Mathematica as well for analysis by using the WolframAlpha function.

This gets you the same formatted output in Mathematica as shown on the WolframAlpha site.

WolframAlpha["lung adenocarcinoma"]

If you just need computable data (the data underlying the formatted data then this will return it.

KeySelect[#[[2]] == "ComputableData" &]@WolframAlpha["lung adenocarcinoma", "DataRules"]

In Mathematica, you could also use the "Disease" Interpreter or the "ComputedDisease" Interpreter to get information.

d = Interpreter["Disease"]["lung adenocarcinoma"];
props = EntityValue[d, d["Properties"], "PropertyAssociation"];
Grid[KeyValueMap[{CanonicalName@#1, #2} &]@props, Alignment -> Left]

Hope this helps.