A project to create an alerts/ a daily email for relevant clinical trials by interacting with the open source US clinical trials database. Here's the API.
- Collect the user's email address
- Allow the user to save a list of keywords
- Every day, search the US clinical trial database for trials that match the keywords
- When a new trial or trials appear email these to the user
- Allow the user to save links to papers
- Autopopulate with links to new papers from a user's keywords
- Email the user one random paper a day from their saved (and unread) links
- Create a chrome extension to save a link offsite via a button or keyboard shortcut
Zotero is an open source citation manager that has similar functionality
This project uses PHP Laravel (and a Postgres DB). A local development env is easily set up using docker & Laravel Sail. Do composer install
then sail up -d
to bring up the services listed in the docker-compose file. See the .env file for using XDEBUG