Objective To study the feasibility of artificial immune system(AIS)in assistant designing of computer for new Chinese herbal compounds with anti-infectious function.Methods A group of Chinese herbal drug compounds from Treatise on Exogenous Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases were selected as training samples.Serum was obtained from mice which were infected by Staphylococcus aureus and ig administrated with the various Chinese herbal compounds.The inhibition ability against S.aureus of the serum was tested and input into an artificial neural network(ANN)together with the characters of the every Chinese herb included in those compounds.The ANN was optimized using AIS so that it can predict the inhibitory ability against S.aureus of the Chinese herbal compounds according to the characters of Chinese herbs included in those compounds.After that the computer generated a number of Chinese herbal compounds randomly,calculated their inhibitory ability against S.aureus and output those among the top levels,so as to verify whether the predictions were correct or not.Results After verification,the Chinese herbal drug compounds designed by computer could significantly raise the serum's inhibitory ability against S.aureus.Conclusion The computer can be an assistant for designing new Chinese herbal compounds with anti-infectious function

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