Research progress and prospects of informatics of traditional Chinese medicine

Abstract

With the rapid development of science and technology, biomedicine has entered a new era of big data. Massive biomedical data has speeded up the rise of medical informatics, systems biology, computational biology and the interdisciplinary disciplines, which brought unprecedented opportunities for traditional Chinese medicine. The resources of Chinese medicine are abundant, and a large amount of data has been accumulated in various aspects such as Chinese medicine resources and clinical applications. The application of informatics technology in the field of Chinese medicine expands continuously. This paper specifically reviews commonly used traditional Chinese medicine databases and describes research progresses of Chinese medicine informatics. Furthermore, the opportunities and prospects of traditional Chinese medicine are discussed.

Keywords

• tcm informatics
• tcm database
• system biology