TMNP: a transcriptome-based multi-scale network pharmacology platform for herbal medicine.
Brief Bioinform
; 23(1)2022 01 17.
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ABSTRACT
One of the most difficult problems that hinder the development and application of herbal medicine is how to illuminate the global effects of herbs on the human body. Currently, the chemo-centric network pharmacology methodology regards herbs as a mixture of chemical ingredients and constructs the 'herb-compound-target-disease' connections based on bioinformatics methods, to explore the pharmacological effects of herbal medicine. However, this approach is severely affected by the complexity of the herbal composition. Alternatively, gene-expression profiles induced by herbal treatment reflect the overall biological effects of herbs and are suitable for studying the global effects of herbal medicine. Here, we develop an online transcriptome-based multi-scale network pharmacology platform (TMNP) for exploring the global effects of herbal medicine. Firstly, we build specific functional gene signatures for different biological scales from molecular to higher tissue levels. Then, specific algorithms are designed to measure the correlations of transcriptional profiles and types of gene signatures. Finally, TMNP uses pharmacotranscriptomics of herbal medicine as input and builds associations between herbs and different biological scales to explore the multi-scale effects of herb medicine. We applied TMNP to a single herb Astragalus membranaceus and Xuesaitong injection to demonstrate the power to reveal the multi-scale effects of herbal medicine. TMNP integrating herbal medicine and multiple biological scales into the same framework, will greatly extend the conventional network pharmacology model centering on the chemical components, and provide a window for systematically observing the complex interactions between herbal medicine and the human body. TMNP is available at http//www.bcxnfz.top/TMNP.
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01-internacional
Banco de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Medicina de Hierbas
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Transcriptoma
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Farmacología en Red
Tipo de estudio:
Diagnostic_studies
Límite:
Humans
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En
Revista:
Brief Bioinform
Asunto de la revista:
BIOLOGIA
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INFORMATICA MEDICA
Año:
2022
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
China