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Network Pharmacology, 2023, 8(3-4): 27-63
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Information system of attributes and functions of Chinese herbal medicines

WenJun Zhang1, QingShun Wei2
1School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
2Weifang Industrial Technology Institute of Chinese Medicine, Weifang, China

Received 18 September 2022;Accepted 12 February 2023;Published online 14 February 2023;Published 1 December 2023
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Abstract
In present study, we developed the web database CHM-DATA Version 1.2 based on the previous database CHM-DATA Version 1.0 (Zhang, 2017a), a database of attributes and functions of Chinese herbal medicines. The information system of attributes and functions of Chinese herbal medicines (ISAFCHM) was developed based on CHM-DATA Version 1.2, which is used for online query of attributes and functions of Chinese herbal medicines. In this system, there are more than 1,000 kinds of Chinese herbal medicines (about 2,000 species of plants or fungi), about 200 families, about 80 kinds of attributes and typical chemical composition categories and, nearly 100 medicinal functions, etc. Users can choose to list the complete set of information on the attributes and functions of Chinese herbal medicines, or can choose to list the filtered information according to selected keywords (about 1,500 keywords in total) for medicine name, species, family, medicinal organs or tissues, taste attributes, medicinal properties, toxicity attribuite, chemical composition categories, meridians and collaterals, and medicinal functions,, etc. Each piece information of Chinese herbal medicines includes the following content: medicine name, pinyin name, Latin scientific name, international standard name, family name, medicinal organs or tissues, taste attributes, medicinal properties, toxicity attribuite, chemical composition categories, meridians and collaterals, and medicinal functions, etc. Different from the information system based on static web pages, the present system ISAFCHM is based on the web database, with only about five files, small storage space, easy to upgrade, maintain and update, low error rate, and conducive to information mining and analysis. More importantly, it is beneficial for users to find interesting information. At the bottom left of each page of ISAFCHM, there is Google Translate, which can translate the Chinese on the current page into any selected language, thus realizing the internationalization of ISAFCHM.

Keywords information system;web database;online query;Chinese herbal medicines.


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