articleNucleic Acids ResearchNov 29, 2012GOLD OA

TCMID: traditional Chinese medicine integrative database for herb molecular mechanism analysis

RXRuichao XueZFZhao FangMZMeixia ZhangZYZhenghui YiCWChengping Wen

Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Sichuan University · +5 more institutions

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Abstract

As an alternative to modern western medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is receiving increasingly attention worldwide. Great efforts have been paid to TCM's modernization, which tries to bridge the gap between TCM and modern western medicine. As TCM and modern western medicine share a common aspect at molecular level that the compound(s) perturb human's dysfunction network and restore human normal physiological condition, the relationship between compounds (in herb, refer to ingredients) and their targets (proteins) should be the key factor to connect TCM and modern medicine. Accordingly, we construct this Traditional Chinese Medicine Integrated Database (TCMID, http://www.megabionet.org/tcmid/),…

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  • DrugBank
  • PubChem
  • Traditional Chinese medicine
  • Mechanism (biology)
  • Traditional medicine
  • Western medicine
  • Systems pharmacology
  • Database
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