[e-drug] The use of stems in International Nonproprietary Names (5)

["Horst Herb" <subscriptions@gnumed.net>]

E-DRUG: The use of stems in International Nonproprietary Names (5)
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On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 23:08, baloccor@who.int wrote:
> The Cumulative List No 11 CD Rom can be obtained from WHO/MDI Department. The CD Rom contains the Cumulative List Nr 11 as PDF and the searchable database.

It is a great pity that the INN list is not available as a machine readable  file for download.

We would have liked to seed our drug reference database with INNs, alas, 
nobody could help us  at WHO other than pointing us again and again towards the order form of the PDF based CD-ROM.

Retyping information from PDF files or writing extensive parsing algorithms is not very productive.

I'd wish there was a general consensus to provide *standard* information freely on the net for everybody to use.

Horst 
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Dr Horst Herb
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Horst Herb <subscriptions@gnumed.net>
[There is an enormous amount of material already avaialble to download.  Perhaps this can be included too. BS]