Title
A causal relationship discovery-based approach to identifying active components of herbal medicine.
Abstract
Herbal medicine is widely applied for clinical use in East Asia and other countries. However, unclear correlation between its complex chemical composition and bioactivity prevents its application in the West. In the present study, a stepwise causal adjacent relationship discovery algorithm has been developed to study correlation between composition and bioactivity of herbal medicine and identify active components from the complex mixture. This approach was successfully applied in discovering active constituents from mixed extracts of Radix Salviae miltiorrhizae and Cortex Moutan. Moreover, advantage of the present approach compared with bioassay-guided isolation was demonstrated by its application on a typical herbal drug. The current work offers a new way to virtually screen active components of herbal medicine, and it might be helpful to accelerate the process of new drug discovery from natural products.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1016/j.compbiolchem.2005.11.003
Computational Biology and Chemistry
Keywords
Field
DocType
Herbal medicine,Causality discovery,Quantitative composition–activity relationship (QCAR),Rational design of botanical drug
Drug discovery,Biology,Pharmacology,Radix,Active components,Bioinformatics,Computational biology,Drug
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
30
2
1476-9271
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.63
1
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yiyu Cheng1688.54
Yi Wang251.40
Xuewei Wang3729.72