title: Understanding oriental medicine using a systems approach.
abstract: Two international meetings, the International Physiome Symposium 2008 and the Workshop on Systems Biology (SB) and Oriental Medicine (OM), were held to discuss the most appropriate scientific tools to research OM. Participants agreed that since OM is holistic medicine it needs a systems approach such as SB. However, SB itself is still a long way from identifying the high-level organization processes in the biological system that might correlate with concepts in OM. As such, a modest goal of launching a project to examine the problems of translation and interpretation of OM concepts would be the first step.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Research, Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine, Daejeon 305-811, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Jong Yeol
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Duong Duc
authors.initials: DD
authors.lastname: Pham