Inflam

Inflam is a data management system written in Python that manages trial data used in clinical inflammation studies.

Main features

Here are some key features of Inflam:

• Provide basic statistical analyses over clinical trial data
• Ability to work on trial data in Comma-Separated Value (CSV) format
• Generate plots of trial data
• Analytical functions and views can be easily extended based on its Model-View-Controller architecture

Prerequisites

Inflam requires the following Python packages:

• NumPy - makes use of NumPy's statistical functions
• Matplotlib - uses Matplotlib to generate statistical plots

The following optional packages are required to run Inflam's unit tests:

• pytest - Inflam's unit tests are written using pytest
• pytest-cov - Adds test coverage stats to unit testing

Installation/deployment

The code is available on GitHub at python-intermediate-inflammation

• Make a copy in a separate directory where you will be able to run the code.
• The actual code is in 'inflammation', the data is in 'data'.

Basic usage

Contributing

This code still needs to be developed and enhaced further. Any contribution is welcomed.

Contact information/getting help

For questions please email: etws@roe.ac.uk

Credits/Acknowledgements

With thanks to the Software Carpentries and the people running the Carpentries Incubator

Licence

Licensed under CC-BY 4.0 2021