Title

Authors

Affiliation

Research Center for Drug Discovery & Institute of Human Virology, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510006, China

Email

junxu@biochemomes.com; *Corresponding author

Article Type

Software

Date

Received December 22, 2011; Accepted January 07, 2012; Published January 20, 2012

Although natural medicines are generally considered to be safer than synthetic medicines, some reports on toxicity of many herb drugs, for example Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), attract more and more common public attention recently. The reasons for these cardiovascular toxic effects are not always satisfactory. Not all these clinical symptoms can be observed regularly. Cardiovascular toxicity concern is one of the hindrances for TCM to enter international markets. Therefore, we create web-based software for people to evaluate TCM cardiovascular toxicity. The software, TCM Cardiovascular Toxicity Prediction (TCMCardioTox), is based on structure similarity search algorithm (http://rcdd.sysu.edu.cn:8080/home.aspx). When a user enter a TCM name, the system interprets the name as a number of active component structures, and computes the structure similarities of the components against a number of known toxiphores. If one of the similarity is greater than a given similarity threshold, the TCM will be reported as an alert TCM for medical uses.

Citation

Lu et al. Bioinformation 8(2): 110-113 (2012)
 

Edited by

P Kangueane

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.