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Proof-of-concept for reasoning over the SemMedDB knowledge base, using miniKanren + heuristics + indexing.

15 mentions on Hacker News by 12 people: 2 stories, 13 comments · first 2018-06-12 · latest 2024-07-18

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  1. A theorem prover for the medical literature: https://github.com/webyrd/mediKanren http://minikanren.org/workshop/2020/minikanren-2020-paper7.p... Not prolog though. But gives an idea about the goals behind the classification of science…
    comment by rscho · 2024-07-18 · in Ask HN: What's Prolog like in 2024?
  2. …but probably THE most impressive biomedicine research work I've seen (and I'm an academic MD): https://github.com/webyrd/mediKanren This is a FOL theorem prover that uses medical research articles as terms. They use it to do genetics and…
  3. …they have the same goals. To support my point, here's an example of an exotic theorem prover: https://github.com/webyrd/mediKanren It is aimed at medical researchers, and computes proofs about the medical literature, no less! This is a…
    comment by rscho · 2022-04-28 · in An automatic theorem proving project
  4. …the tools... I have not checked in on them for years now but "BioStars Handbook" was up & coming [] https://github.com/webyrd/mediKanren [] https://biostar.myshopify.com/
  5. …It reminds me of FOSS in that the funding challenges may be similar, but for treating disease. [0] https://github.com/webyrd/mediKanren
  6. …logic programming [2]. Fund them! They're the future! [1] https://www.uab.edu/medicine/pmi/ [2] https://github.com/webyrd/mediKanren
  7. …personal genome and suggesting a drug for that! Here's the link to the github app they mentioned: https://github.com/webyrd/mediKanren
  8. …for reasoning over medical knowledge graphs, using miniKanren + heuristics + indexing. https://github.com/webyrd/mediKanren
  9. …of mediKanren, which is software that performs reasoning over large biomedical knowledge graphs: https://github.com/webyrd/mediKanren/tree/master/medikanren2 mediKanren is being developed by the Hugh Kaul Precision Medicine Institute at…
  10. The Precision Medicine Institute that I now run produces mediKanren: https://github.com/webyrd/mediKanren It's an open source logical reasoning engine (read: 1960's AI) for drug repurposing that we deploy routinely to help patients. There…
    comment by mattmight · 2021-01-22 · in Bertrand Might: Life, legacy and next steps
  11. …which operates over medical research. There was some publicity around mediKanren last year.[1] [0] https://github.com/webyrd/mediKanren [1] https://www.uab.edu/news/health/item/10703-diagnosis-in-2-12...
    comment by erjiang · 2020-10-14 · in Unifying the Technical Interview
  12. Github link: https://github.com/webyrd/mediKanren
  13. Here is mediKanren (from the same authors): https://github.com/webyrd/mediKanren It's used for automated search through medical databases for drug discovery: https://www.uab.edu/mix/stories/a-high-speed-dr-house-for-me... Here is the…