Show HN: Muler, a search engine for drug info built with Flask

Re:Show HN: Muler, a search engine for drug info built with ... by treis on Monday July 19, 2021 @10:31AM (#27883030)

There seems to be some fuzzy matching logic gone awry. I searched for "insulin" and it brought me to "inulin" which are very different things.

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Re:Show HN: Muler, a search engine for drug info built with ... by avgDev on Monday July 19, 2021 @11:14AM (#27883547)

For sure, searched cipro and it pulled up Benzyl alcohol lol......

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Re:Show HN: Muler, a search engine for drug info built with ... by meepmorp on Monday July 19, 2021 @01:37PM (#27885228)

Cipro has a benzene ring and an OH group, so it's practically the same thing if you squint a little.

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Re:Show HN: Muler, a search engine for drug info built with ... by pizzicato on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @07:50AM (#27892597)

Seems like the entry on Drugbank for insulin is "insulin human", which explains why it doesn't return an immediate match. The closest match using Levenshtein distance is "inulin" instead.

Thanks for pointing that out :) I'll have to do some tweaking.

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