title: [Research and analysis of data source--analysis of the items of medical plants in Xiandai Bencao Gangmu].
abstract: Scientific data is the source of innovation in knowledge. In order to change the situation that there is few information in plenty of data and to obtain useful knowledge which has high information content, it is necessary to clean data and ensure data's accuracy and without noise off when database is established initially. High-quality data comes from high-quality data source. But incomplete and incorrect and irregular data exist widely in the data source of Chinese materia medica. The phenomenon of synonyms and homonym is quite serious, and there is no unified description for the name and origin of Chinese materia medica among different data sources. So data processing including data analysis and research is very important in the establishment of Chinese materia medica database. In order to get the most accurate and standard data, this paper analyzed the items of Medical Plants in Xiandai Bencao Gangmu, including classification analysis of medical plants: distribution analysis of different classes and analysis of medical part; analysis of synonyms and homonym; analysis of incorrect data and analysis of advantage and disadvantage of data sources.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Information Management of Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Fuzhou 350003, China. ldy-ftjcm@yahoo.com.cn
authors.forename: Duan-yi
authors.initials: DY
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: Chang-en
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Xin-mei
authors.initials: XM
authors.lastname: Lai
authors.forename: Shu-jing
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Yang
mesh_terms: D008419:Materia Medica / Q000145:classification*; D010946:Plants, Medicinal / Q000145:classification*; D012014:Reference Books, Medical; D009626:Terminology as Topic
chemical_list: D008419:Materia Medica