Script for converting National Library of Medicine MeSH Files from XML to CSV for medical concept searching.
Clark Xu - June 15, 2020
The script converts descriptors in the 2020 National Library of Medicine (NLM) MeSH Data from XML to CSV File Format for ease of medical concept searching on the NLM website. Contribution to the PAGER-COV Project.
NLM Files documented at: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/download/mesh.html
PAGER-COV documented at: http://discovery.informatics.uab.edu/PAGERCOV/
Python 3
csv, urllib, xml
NLM features transformed into CSV:
DescriptorClass, DescriptorUI, NLMClassificationNumber, DescriptorName, DateCreated, Annotation, AllowableQualifiersList, PharmacologicalActionList, OnlineNote, HistoryNote, PublicMeSHNote
Script Name:
XML_Parser.py
Script Output:
MeSH_2020_Desc.csv
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