Data Sources & Licensing
lmmol.com does not generate biomedical facts — it reorganizes and cross-references
open public data so it can be searched and browsed as one graph. Every record traces
back to an authoritative upstream source, linked from the node's
outbound_source_links. You are responsible for complying with each upstream
source's license and terms of use for whatever you do with the data.
Sources
| Source | Provides | Identifier | Home |
|---|---|---|---|
| UniProt / Swiss-Prot | reviewed proteins | accession (P38398) | https://www.uniprot.org/ |
| ClinicalTrials.gov | clinical trials | NCT id (NCT00001496) | https://clinicaltrials.gov/ |
| Mondo Disease Ontology | disease normalization | Mondo id (MONDO_0016419) | https://mondo.monarchinitiative.org/ |
| ClinVar | gene–disease clinical significance | gene symbol + variant | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/clinvar/ |
| Gene Ontology (GO) | functional annotation | GO id (GO:0006281) | http://geneontology.org/ |
Genes are identified by gene symbol and tied to proteins, diseases, and clinical significance through the sources above.
Licensing of the upstream data
Each source sets its own terms; always check the current terms at the source before redistributing or building a product on the data. As of writing:
- UniProt — distributed under CC BY 4.0; attribute UniProt.
- ClinicalTrials.gov — U.S. National Library of Medicine data; review the terms and conditions.
- Mondo — released under CC BY 4.0 by the Monarch Initiative.
- ClinVar — public-domain U.S. government data; see NCBI's policies.
- Gene Ontology — released under CC BY 4.0.
When in doubt, follow the link in a node's outbound_source_links to the authoritative
record and cite that.
How to cite
Cite the upstream source for any specific fact, and acknowledge lmmol.com for the cross-referenced, navigable structure. lmmol is an organizing layer over public data, not a primary source.
Freshness
Counts and contents change as upstream sources are refreshed. index.json reports the
current per-type counts — fetch it to see what is live now rather than relying on the
example numbers in this book.
Scope reminder
This book documents how to use lmmol.com's published data. How that data is assembled — the ingest, normalization, and build pipeline — is out of scope and lives in a separate, private project.