WWW::Search::DrugBank 0.01
==========================

This is a screen scraper for querying the University of Alberta's
DrugBank database.

It uses the L<WWW::Search> interface to provide information about
pharmaceuticals:

  use WWW::Search;

  my $search = new WWW::Search('DrugBank');

  my @ids = qw/ APRD00109 APRD00189 APRD00849 /;
  $search->native_query( \@ids );

  while( my $drug = $search->next_result ) {
    printf "Generic name: %s\n", $drug->{generic_name};
    printf "Melting point: %s\n", $drug->{melting_point};
    printf "CAS registry number: %s\n", $drug->{cas_registry_number};
    printf "PubChem compound ID: %s\n", $drug->{pubchem_id}->{compound};
    printf "PubChem substance ID: %s\n", $drug->{pubchem_id}->{substance};
    print "\n";
    # ... etc.
  }

PREREQUISITES

  * WWW::Search
  * Test::More
  * XML::LibXML
  * HTML::TreeBuilder
  * HTML::Entities
  * URI

Currently, parsing DrugBank cards relies on XML::LibXML, which
requires libxml2 (L<http://xmlsoft.org>). I would have used the
pure-Perl XML::XPath module had it not been so excruciatingly slow.

INSTALLATION

To install this module, run the following commands:

  perl Makefile.PL
  make
  make test
  make install

SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION

After installing, you can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

    perldoc WWW::Search::DrugBank

You can also look for information at:

    Search CPAN
        http://search.cpan.org/dist/WWW-Search-DrugBank

    CPAN Request Tracker:
        http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=WWW-Search-DrugBank

    AnnoCPAN, annotated CPAN documentation:
        http://annocpan.org/dist/WWW-Search-DrugBank

    CPAN Ratings:
        http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/WWW-Search-DrugBank

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Copyright (C) 2006 David Iberri

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.
