A Causal Discovery Approach to Identifying Active Components of Herbal Medicine
Yi Wang, Xuewei Wang, Yiyu Cheng · 2005
In the present study, a stepwise causal adjacent relationship discovery (STEPCARD) method has been developed to identify active components of herbal medicine. The combination of two active components had been successfully recognized from a typical Chinese formulation. Animal experiments validated the computational result. It indicates current work might be helpful to accelerate the process of new drug discovery from herbal medicine.