A deep impact on the development of marine pharmaceutical science will be benefit- ed from the inter-disciplined combination of marine science and pharmaceutical science with information technology. Applications of such technologies as obtaining information trough Internet,database-on-the-Inter and virtual reality will greatly modify and accelerate the processes of discovering and developing marine drugs derived from marine bioresources. The concept of "virtual research on marine drug" was proposed for the first time in this paper, and the first professional net on marine drugs was build. The virtual research center for marine drugs was also build on the Internet and will be made more resourceful in the future.

The antihypertensive effect of marine sulfated polysaccharide AHD and its underlying mechanisms were studied in renovascular hypertensive rats (RHR) [two-kidney one clip,Goldblatt(2-K 1C)J. AHD were given orally at doses of 12.5, 25,50mg?kg～-1 once a day for five weeks,simultaneously wity the initiation of the establishment of renovascular hypertensive model. Serum nitric oxide(NO) was determined with NO kit,and plasma Angiotensin E (Ang Ⅱ ) and Eneothelin (ET) Were measured by radioimmumoassays. The results indicated that AHD decreased arteial blood pressure in a dose-dependent manner. Moreover, nitric oxide (NO) contents in serum were dose-dependently elevated,accompanied by dramatic reduction in Ang Ⅱ and ET contents. These findings suggested that AHD exerted its hypotensive activity by enhancing tye release of NO,followed by reduction in production of boty ANG Ⅱ and ET in vivo.