Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering Research

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Architecture of network medicine and its research progress

Li Ying1, Huang Wen-cong2   

  1. 1Guangxi Colleges and Universities Key Laboratory of Scientific Computing &
    Intelligent Information Processing of Guangxi Teachers Education University, Nanning 530001, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China; 2School of Sports of Guangxi Teachers Education University, Nanning 530001,Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
  • Received:2016-12-12 Online:2017-04-28 Published:2017-05-16
  • About author:Li Ying, Ph.D., Associate professor, Guangxi Colleges and Universities Key Laboratory of Scientific Computing & Intelligent Information Processing of Guangxi Teachers Education University, Nanning 530001, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
  • Supported by:

    the Scientific Research Foundation of the Higher Education Institutions of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China, No. KY2015YB188

Abstract:

BACKGROUND: Network medical research contains various widely applicable networks with different structures, and construction methods. These networks are not organized in architecture yet, and there is a lack of overview about its application and research progress.
OBJECTIVE: To organize various medical networks to a hierarchical architecture, and summarize their research progress.
METHODS: A computer-based search of CNKI and PubMed databases was performed for articles about the network medicine published between 1999 and 2016 using the keywords of “disease network, protein interaction network, metabolic network, gene regulatory” in English and Chinese, respectively. Then the main research contents, module property, construction methods, maturity and application progress of network medicine were discussed to predict the research direction.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: The architecture of network medicine consists of molecular interaction network layer (interactome), disease network layer (diseasome) and drug network layer (drugome). In the interactome, protein-protein interaction network, metabolic network and gene regulatory network are in the order of organisms → mammals → human, and respective networks of human have been mapped but not mature; and new networks are being built. In diseasome, many disease networks have been constructed using a single element to cluster; and cluster by new element or combined elements can be considered in the future. Given this the current pharmacology is based on protein, there are few networks in the drugome the elements that constitute the drugome are only drug and protein.

中国组织工程研究杂志出版内容重点:组织构建;骨细胞;软骨细胞;细胞培养;成纤维细胞;血管内皮细胞;骨质疏松组织工程

Key words: Metabolic Networks and Pathways, Gene Regulatory Networks, Tissue Engineering

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