Systems biology and traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) modernizatin.
- Author:
Ji-yong ZHANG
1
;
Qing-guo WANG
;
Zhao WANG
Author Information
1. Medical School, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- MeSH:
Drug Combinations;
Drugs, Chinese Herbal;
Medicine, Chinese Traditional;
trends;
Models, Biological;
Neural Networks (Computer);
Systems Biology;
methods;
trends
- From:
China Journal of Chinese Materia Medica
2005;30(22):1725-1766
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Systems biology is a new field in biology that aims at system-level understanding of biological systems. Based on the remarkable progress from molecular biology, systems biology focuses its research on investigating the biological systems to form their entirety. Considering the trend of TCM modernization and the coherence on the point of holism between systems biology and TCM, a comprehensive way for the research of TCM modernization was referred, which involves a new concept, componentomics.