ZHENG-Omics Application in ZHENG Classification and Treatment: Chinese Personalized Medicine

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Schematic diagram of research approach for ZHENG-omics. Traditional Chinese medicine is mysterious and obscure, like a fuzzy picture. It is difficult to obtain systematic knowledge from the whole directly, yet the partial information is much easier to be acquired and understood, such as nucleic acids, proteins, and metabolites. Combined with classic symptoms and feelings, the former could be obtained by ZHENG-omics from sufficient classic samples on the basis of holism. The integration of omic data and symptoms will be performed by bioinformatics and so on, which further provide the multilevel information, like small lights in the big black box. Then, a vivid picture may emerge in our sights, just like getting the systematic connotation of TCM or ZHENG.