Integrative mining of traditional Chinese medicine literature and MEDLINE for functional gene networks

This paper presents an approach to integrate TCM literature and modern biomedical data to discover novel gene networks and functional knowledge of genes. The preliminary results show that the novel gene functional knowledge and gene networks, which are worthy of further investigation, could be generated by integrating the two complementary biomedical data sources. It will be a promising research field through integrative mining of TCM and modern life science literature.