Overall goal: Our overall goal is to create a pharmacogneetic (interaction of drugs and the genome) data base. This will be used in the OR (operating room) in order to prescribe the appropriate drug and dosages to the patient post surgery.

1)We next wanted to out put a table on suggestions. We figured a table would make it easier to see and understand dosing suggestions. Tables are also useful because three of the drugs interact with the same gene, so they’ll all appear in the same table.  This will make it easier for us to spot errors and will also aid doctors by laying out everything that they want.

2) We did this by coding in a table and giving it the outputs of the if loops. We also worked to add in all data and update the if loops.  All this was done in order to make the outputs easier to understand for the reader (assuming of course they have experience in medicine. For a little while, I was struggling to get the table accept the outputs for “Extensive metabolizer”, but this was resolved by checking for, and finding, minor spelling errors.

3) We are struggling with dosing options, namely what the Dr. Kertai (our advisor) wants us to do with the dosing options. Currently we see this as redundant, but it may help with cases in which more than the normal amount of drug is required.

4) To fix this, we will communicate with Dr. Kertai. I would also like to ask him rather our idea for a second webpage is necessary.

5) We next wish to create a second webpage for Werfern, this is the only drug not effected by the same gene). This is important as it will allow us to reduce the clutter on our page and allow the doctor to only see what they want. This will likely be down by creating another site for now, note we are still only on a practice site and do not have our own domain. We also want to be able to take in an input for how much dosing the doctor wishes to give. This is important in order to make better suggestions, i.e. either correcting the doctor or telling them that alternatives are better.  This will be down by adding in a new variable for each drug and incorporating them into the if loops (preferably not as another level).  It would also be a good idea to get a domain, but we are not in a rush to do this at the moment. In the long run, we want to connect our site to a data base on patients. There is little I can do about this at the moment due to clearance, but I will add in an input for patient id or possibly a counter system of some kind. The input would be useful for possibly personalizing the table and keeping track of medication history. The counter would likely be a stand-in for said input for now. Both option would rely on java-script functions and (eventually) the ability to connect to said databank. The java-script i should be able to learn easily enough, but the databank I’m a tiny bit confused on, as I don’t know How I will test it without said database.

 On a person note, I would love to have a version of this accessible to patients, but given it may be connected to a databank of personal record, I doubt this will be possible