This repository includes:
- one ontology for nutritional epidemiologic research. It was developed according to three well-developed standards agreed by the nutrition science community.
- Python code to manage a graph database of nutritional epidemiologic papers.
- Python code to manage a graph database of FAO food-based dietary guidelines.
Nutritional epidemiology is a specific research area. The generic ontologies for food science, nutrition science or medical science failed to cover the specific characteristics of nutritional epidemiologic studies. As a result, we developed the ontology for nutritional epidemiology (ONE) in order to describe nutritional epidemiologic studies accurately.
It has been tested in Python v3.8.5 and Neo4j v3.5.6.
- FAO guidelines annotation.py: extract and store metadata of food-based dietary guidelines through the FAO website;
- FAO guidelines-get urls and countries.py: extract the list of urls and country/area names of the FAO guidelines;
- FAO guidelines annotation (an example).py: an example to run the code.
Figure 1. The FAO homepage of food-based dietary guidelines
Figure 2. Extract the list of countries/areas from the FAO website
Figure 3. Extract the urls of food-based dietary guidelines from the FAO website
Figure 4. The urls of food-based dietary guidelines from the FAO website
Figure 5. Run the web crawler to process all the urls
Figure 6. Identify the key metadata of the Portugal guidelines (an example)
Figure 7. Query the developed neo4j database: area
Figure 8. Query the developed neo4j database: food item
Figure 9. Identify corresponding ontology terms (Food Ontology)
Figure 10. Identifier/ontology term
Figure 11. A drafted dashboard
It has been tested in Python v3.7.4 and Neo4j v3.5.6.
A Python module was developed to process content and STROBE-nut annotations of nutritional epidemiologic papers in XML format:
- Input.py: extract and store metadata of papers through the “Springer Nature API Portal” or in local XML files respectively;
- Annotate.py: annotate the reporting completeness of papers according to the STROBE-nut reporting guidelines;
- Figure.py: visualize the statistics of reporting completeness of papers; visualize the reporting frequency of the STROBE-nut items.
Please download the code under the folder "imports".
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