Getting started in text mining to find the biological network shared with rheumatoid arthritis, coronary heart disease and diabetes mellitus

摘要

In order to contribute to biomedical text extraction and mining in the field of modern research of pattern in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), MeSH mining method was used in this study. Based on “Different diseases with same pattern” theory in TCM, rheumatoid arthritis, coronary heart disease and diabetes mellitus were selected to explore the potential biological network shared in these three diseases. By means of association analysis method, four main network were presented including oxidation reduction, apoptosis, vascularization and sex hormone. It suggested that text mining could be the starting for the modern research on pattern in TCM.