omop-graph

omop-graph is a lightweight, opinionated knowledge-graph traversal and path-analysis library built on top of the OMOP vocabulary model.

It provides:

• a stable KnowledgeGraph façade over OMOP concepts and relationships
• flexible graph traversal (forward, backward, bidirectional)
• path discovery with transparent scoring
• traceable explanations of traversal decisions
• multiple rendering backends (text, HTML, Mermaid)

The library is designed for:

• interactive analysis (Jupyter)
• reproducible research
• downstream tooling (NLP pipelines, ontology alignment, curation tools)

Installation

pip install omop-graph

With embedding support:

pip install "omop-graph[emb]"

For larger deployments use [pgvector] or [faiss-cpu] instead (or in addition). Embedding support still needs a configured vector store, model, and provider (via oa-configurator); it isn't zero-config on its own. Full setup is covered in the omop-emb documentation.

Core Concepts

KnowledgeGraph

KnowledgeGraph is the main entry point. It wraps a SQLAlchemy Engine connected to an OMOP vocabulary schema and provides a high-level Pythonic API over the relational tables.

from sqlalchemy import create_engine
from omop_graph.graph.kg import KnowledgeGraph
from omop_graph.graph.nodes import LabelMatchKind

engine = create_engine("postgresql://user:pass@localhost/omop")
kg = KnowledgeGraph(cdm_engine=engine)

# Lookup a concept by label
matches = kg.concept_lookup("Atrial Fibrillation", match_kind=LabelMatchKind.EXACT)
concept = matches[0]
print(f"ID: {concept.matched_concept_id}, Name: {concept.matched_concept_label}")

# Traverse the hierarchy
parents = kg.parents(concept.matched_concept_id)

Nodes and Edges

Nodes are OMOP Concepts; Edges are OMOP Concept_Relationships.

Relationships are pre-classified into semantic kinds (PredicateKind):

• HIERARCHY — parent/child ontological relationships
• IDENTITY — mapping to standard concepts
• COMPOSITION — part-of relationships
• ASSOCIATION — lateral clinical associations
• ATTRIBUTE — concept attribute relationships

This classification drives traversal filtering and scoring.

Traversal and Paths

from omop_graph.graph.paths import find_shortest_paths
from omop_graph.extensions.omop_alchemy import PredicateKind

ingredient = kg.concept_id_by_code("RxNorm", "6809")    # Metformin
drug = kg.concept_id_by_code("RxNorm", "860975")         # Metformin 500 MG Oral Tablet

paths, trace = find_shortest_paths(
    kg,
    source=drug,
    target=ingredient,
    predicate_kinds=frozenset({PredicateKind.HIERARCHY, PredicateKind.IDENTITY}),
    max_depth=6,
    traced=True,
)

Rendering

Outputs can be rendered as plain text, HTML (Jupyter), or Mermaid diagrams. Rendering auto-detects the environment.

from IPython.display import HTML, display
from omop_graph.render import render_trace

display(HTML(render_trace(kg, trace)))

Project Structure

omop_graph/
├── graph/          # graph logic, traversal, paths, scoring
├── render/         # HTML / text / Mermaid renderers
├── reasoning/      # ontology traversal methods for specific reasoner tasks
│   ├── resolvers/  # resolve labels via exact / fuzzy / full-text / synonym search
│   └── phenotypes/ # set operations for hierarchical groupings
├── oaklib_interface/  # OAK-compliant adapter
├── api.py          # stable public API surface
└── db/             # session helpers

Configuration

omop-graph reads database connection settings from oa-configurator. It requires the CDM database configured by omop-alchemy.

Run once after installation:

omop-config init
omop-config configure omop_alchemy
omop-config configure omop_graph

See Configuration for full details.