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TCM Preparation Network Pharmacology Analysis

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Traditional Chinese Medicine and Diseases

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Computational biology and multi-omics have expanded the study of system biology, which have led to studies on network pharmacology as a result of this progress (Boezio et al. 2017). Thus, this approach has changed from a single-drug approach to an approach focused on several targets and multiple components of diseases. Small-molecule regulation principles are revealed in a high-throughput manner by network pharmacology, which establishes a “compound-protein/gene-disease” network. TCM preparations, in particular, benefit greatly from network pharmacology in drug analysis.

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Yang, P. (2022). TCM Preparation Network Pharmacology Analysis. In: Ning, K. (eds) Traditional Chinese Medicine and Diseases. Translational Bioinformatics, vol 18. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-4771-1_7

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