Evidence map›Paper›PMID 24735618›Full record

ArticleJournal of cheminformatics2014

TCMSP: a database of systems pharmacology for drug discovery from herbal medicines.

Jinlong Ru, Peng Li, Jinan Wang, Wei Zhou, Bohui Li, Chao Huang, Pidong Li, Zihu Guo, Weiyang Tao, Yinfeng Yang and 4 more

Open access · goldAbstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Journal of cheminformatics, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2,603 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2,603citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
39.4field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2,603 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 4,885 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Article
  3. Bone reports · 2026
    Article
  4. Article
  5. Article
  6. Article
  7. Article
  8. Article
  9. Article
  10. Modulation of Antitumor Immunity and the Tumor Microenvironment byInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2026
    Article
  11. Article
  12. Article
  13. Article
  14. Article
  15. Article
  16. Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
    Article
  17. Article
  18. Article
  19. Article
  20. Article

2,543 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Jinlong RuCenter for Bioinformatics, College of Life Science, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China.
Peng LiCenter for Bioinformatics, College of Life Science, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China.
Jinan WangCenter for Bioinformatics, College of Life Science, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China.
Wei ZhouCenter for Bioinformatics, College of Life Science, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China.
Bohui LiCenter for Bioinformatics, College of Life Science, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China.
Chao HuangCenter for Bioinformatics, College of Life Science, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China.
Pidong LiCenter for Bioinformatics, College of Life Science, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China.
Zihu GuoCenter for Bioinformatics, College of Life Science, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China.
Weiyang TaoCenter for Bioinformatics, College of Life Science, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China.
Yinfeng YangSchool of Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, Liaoning 116024, China.
Xue XuCenter for Bioinformatics, College of Life Science, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China.
Yan LiSchool of Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, Liaoning 116024, China.
Yonghua WangCenter for Bioinformatics, College of Life Science, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China.
Ling YangLaboratory of Pharmaceutical Resource Discovery, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China.
Northwest A&F University · CNNorth West Agriculture and Forestry University · CNDalian University · CNChinese Academy of Sciences · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundModern medicine often clashes with traditional medicine such as Chinese herbal medicine because of the little understanding of the underlying mechanisms of action of the herbs. In an effort to promote integration of both sides and to accelerate the drug discovery from herbal medicines, an efficient systems pharmacology platform that represents ideal information convergence of pharmacochemistry, ADME properties, drug-likeness, drug targets, associated diseases and interaction networks, are urgently needed. DESCRIPTION: The traditional Chinese medicine systems pharmacology database and analysis platform (TCMSP) was built based on the framework of systems pharmacology for herbal medicines. It consists of all the 499 Chinese herbs registered in the Chinese pharmacopoeia with 29,384 ingredients, 3,311 targets and 837 associated diseases. Twelve important ADME-related properties like human oral bioavailability, half-life, drug-likeness, Caco-2 permeability, blood-brain barrier and Lipinski's rule of five are provided for drug screening and evaluation. TCMSP also provides drug targets and diseases of each active compound, which can automatically establish the compound-target and target-disease networks that let users view and analyze the drug action mechanisms. It is designed to fuel the development of herbal medicines and to promote integration of modern medicine and traditional medicine for drug discovery and development.

conclusionsThe particular strengths of TCMSP are the composition of the large number of herbal entries, and the ability to identify drug-target networks and drug-disease networks, which will help revealing the mechanisms of action of Chinese herbs, uncovering the nature of TCM theory and developing new herb-oriented drugs. TCMSP is freely available at http://sm.nwsuaf.edu.cn/lsp/tcmsp.php.

Indexed as

ADMEDrug discoverySystems pharmacologyTCM

Identifiers

PMID24735618
PMCPMC4001360
OpenAlexW2124679671

What Socratic holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the Socratic graph.