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Disease curation contributions

Use this path when adding or improving a disease module. The detailed disease curation playbook is canonical; this page is the contributor entry point.

Minimum expectations

  • Use stable disease and entity identifiers.
  • Add sourced records rather than inferred biomedical conclusions.
  • Preserve source and provenance context where available.
  • Keep missing fields explicit; do not turn absent metadata into a negative assertion.
  • Respect upstream data terms and do not include secrets, PHI, or patient-identifiable data.

Validate the module

For a focused module check:

nosograph disease validate <disease-id> --strict
nosograph disease coverage <disease-id>

The full registry contains many scaffolds, so disease validate --all --strict is not the repository merge gate. Read validation for the curated checks and data model for readiness tiers.

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