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

Table 3

Brief introduction of  “-omics” and bioinformatics.

Omics	Advantages	Disadvantages	Literatures
Genomics (transcriptomics)	Gene polymorphism; Susceptibility for prognosis and treatment; Completed database; High throughput	Nonassociation to regulation of life activities; Nonconsistent strictly with mRNA expression	Wu et al. [11]; Lu et al. [63]
Proteomics	Performer of life function	Instability; Variability	Liu et al. [64]; Lu et al. [65]
Metabonomics	Amplified action; Simplicity to detect; Less numbers; Similarities in different species	Lack of beneficial supports; Interferences by physiological factors	van Wietmarschen et al. [66]; Sun et al. [67]; Liu et al. [31]
Bioinformatics	Totally holism; Exploration the potential of information,; Focusing on function relation	Needing of self-development	Li et al. [18]