Relationship between development of bioinformatics and study of Chinese herbal medicine / 中草药

ABSTRACT

Based on the bioinformatics and some frontier science for recent years, the new ideas and methods were used to improve the study of Chinese herbal medicine. Advances in DNA sequencing, prediction of gene, evolution and mutation, prediction of protein structure, biological chip technique, drug target and prediction of drug structure, simulation of metabolism, and the distribution of energy in pharmacological process showed the prospect of the study of Chinese medicinal plants. Some new areas about sources and pharmacology of Chinese herbal medicine are coming into being, especially the relationship between drug targets and drug structure, between simulation of metabolism and pharmacology, and between energy and pharmacology.