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

  • Ruichao Xue
  • , Zhao Fang
  • , Meixia Zhang
  • , Zhenghui Yi
  • , Chengping Wen
  • , Tieliu Shi*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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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/), which records TCM-related information collected from different resources and through text-mining method. To enlarge the scope of the TCMID, the data have been linked to common drug and disease databases, including Drugbank, OMIM and PubChem. Currently, our TCMID contains ∼47 000 prescriptions, 8159 herbs, 25210 compounds, 6828 drugs, 3791 diseases and 17 521 related targets, which is the largest data set for related field. Our web-based software displays a network for integrative relationships between herbs and their treated diseases, the active ingredients and their targets, which will facilitate the study of combination therapy and understanding of the underlying mechanisms for TCM at molecular level.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)D1089-D1095
JournalNucleic Acids Research
Volume41
Issue numberD1
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2013

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