RDSearch

Website for rare diseases related publication analysis on Pubmed database

Technology used

• Node.js
• W3.css

Start web server

First of all, you have to update node modules via Node command prompt:

npm update

Once done, use this command each time you want to start the web server:

node app.js

Stop web server

Use CTRL + C

How to go to the website?

On your browser: http://localhost:8080/

Which file do the search on Pubmed?

The local module NCBIAPIModule (/local_node_modules/controller/NCBIAPIModule.js) use Pubmed to retrieve full articles. And the local module UpdateModule (/local_node_modules/controller/UpdateModule.js) is responsible for updating the data base.

Do I need to create a data base?

Yes, you have to create a data base to test the search engine. She's needed to stock number of publications per year, rare disease informations, ...

To do this, use any sofware to manage a MySQL data base. (EasyPHP for example)

Create a data base which respect this information:

host     : 'localhost',
user     : 'root',
password : '',
database : 'RDSearchDB',

Once done, run the SQL script "rdsearchdb.sql" provided in the repository in your MySQL data base manager