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An initial ingredient analysis of drugs approved by China food and drug administration

  • Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen

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Abstract

Drug is an important part of medicine. Drug knowledge bases tha organize and manage drugs have attracted considerable attention, and have been widely used in human health care in many countries and regions. There are also a large number of electronic drug knowledge bases publicly available. In China, however, there is hardly any publicly available well-structured drug knowledge base, may due to two different types of medicine: Chinese traditional medicine (CTM) and modern medicine (ME). In order to build an electronic knowledge base of drugs approved by China Food and Drug Administration (CFDA), we developed a preliminary ingredient drug analysis system. This system collects all drug names from the website of CFDA, obtains their manuals from three medical websites, extracts the ingredients of drugs, and analyses the distribution of the extracted ingredients. Totally, 12,918 out of 19,490 drug manuals were collected. Evaluation on randomly selected 50 drug manuals shows that the system achieves an F-score of 95.46% on ingredient extraction. According to the distribution of the extraction ingredients, we find that ingredient multiplexing is very common in medicine, especially in herbal medicine, which may provide a clue for drug safety as taking more than one type of drug that contains partially the same ingredients may cause overtaking the same ingredients.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationKnowledge Graph and Semantic Computing
Subtitle of host publicationSemantic, Knowledge, and Linked Big Data - 1st China Conference, CCKS 2016, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsLe Sun, Haixun Wang, Tieyun Qian, Tong Ruan, Heng Ji, Huajun Chen
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages104-109
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print)9789811031670
DOIs
StatePublished - 2016
Externally publishedYes
Event1st China Conference on Knowledge Graph and Semantic Computing, CCKS 2016 - Beijing, China
Duration: 19 Sep 201622 Sep 2016

Publication series

NameCommunications in Computer and Information Science
Volume650
ISSN (Print)1865-0929

Conference

Conference1st China Conference on Knowledge Graph and Semantic Computing, CCKS 2016
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period19/09/1622/09/16

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
    SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

Keywords

  • Chinese traditional medicine
  • Drug ingredient extraction
  • Drug knowledge base

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