NAME

WWW::Search::PharmGKB - Search and retrieve information from the PharmGKB database

VERSION

Version 2.00

SYNOPSIS

use WWW::Search::PharmGKB;
use Data::Dumper;
my $foo = WWW::Search::PharmGKB->new();
my $search_result = $foo->gene_search('CYP2D6');
print Dumper $search_result;

METHODS

new

Usage:

    $foo = WWW::Search::PharmGKB->new();
	    or
    $foo = new WWW::Search::PharmGKB;

Returns:

Self

gene_search

Usage:

$foo->gene_search(<gene_name>);

Returns:

A referenced hash. The keys are 'drugs', 'name', 'symbol', 'pathways',
'drugs', 'diseases', 'phenotypes', 'alternate_names', 'alternate_symbols'

Note:

all the keys contain referenced arrays as values. In the pathway value,
the array has  key => value pairs 'pathway' => 'pharmGKB URL' as elements.
All other keys have referenced array of PharmGKB IDs.

disease_search

Usage:

$foo->disease_search(<disease_name>);

Returns:

A referenced hash of pharmGKB IDs. Each ID contains 'drugs', 'names', 'pathways', 'drugs',
'genes', 'phenotypes'.

Note:

all the keys contain referenced arrays as values. in the pathway value,
the array has  key => value pairs 'pathway' => 'pharmGKB URL' as elements.
All other keys have referenced array of PharmGKB IDs.

drug_search

Usage:

$foo->drug_search(<drug_name>);

Returns:

A referenced hash of pharmGKB IDs. Each ID contains 'diseases', 'generic_names', 'trade_names',
'pathways', 'genes', 'phenotypes', 'category', 'classification'

Note:

all the keys contain referenced arrays as values. in the pathway value,
the array has  key => value pairs 'pathway' => 'pharmGKB URL' as elements.
All other keys have referenced array of PharmGKB IDs.

publication_search

Usage:

$foo->publication_search(<something>);

Returns:

A referenced hash of pharmGKB IDs. Each ID contains 'authors', 'page',
'volume', 'month', 'grant_id', 'cross_reference', 'title', 'abstract', 'year',
'journal'.

AUTHOR

Arun Venkataraman, <arvktr at gmail.com>

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-www-search-pharmgkb at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=WWW-Search-PharmGKB. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc WWW::Search::PharmGKB

You can also look for information at:

• RT: CPAN's request tracker

  http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=WWW-Search-PharmGKB

• AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation

  http://annocpan.org/dist/WWW-Search-PharmGKB

• CPAN Ratings

  http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/WWW-Search-PharmGKB

• Search CPAN

  http://search.cpan.org/dist/WWW-Search-PharmGKB

You can contact the author for any issues or suggestions you come accross using this module.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This module is based on the perl client written by Andrew MacBride (andrew@helix.stanford.edu) for PharmGKB's web services.

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright 2010 Arun Venkataraman arvktr@gmail.com, all rights reserved.

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

cpanm WWW::Search::PharmGKB

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install WWW::Search::PharmGKB